Word: exploiter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...setbacks; every Guatemala was more than offset by a Geneva. In each instance the small advances had been made when free men stood boldly together against Communism; the backward steps were invariably the result of division and fear in the free world-attitudes that the Communists never fail to exploit. Among the points of frustration on Dulles' list...
...during the hadj season. Three times since World War II, Moscow had sent Communists from among Russia's large Moslem population to Mecca. Their mission: to spread the word that the U.S.S.R. is really the nearest thing to Mohammedan paradise and that the imperialist U.S. is out to exploit all Moslems...
...heavily fortified with concrete pillboxes, artillery and interlocking fields of machine-gun fire. Peking claimed that a party of 40 Red raiders attacked a sleeping garrison on Quemoy. killed ten, captured one, withdrew. The occurrence of the raid was confirmed from Taipei, but it seemed a rather tiny exploit to be boasting about. Most likely the cautious Communists were trying to sound out the specific U.S. intentions in Formosa Strait...
...building the new defenses, the Air Defense Command will exploit a happy geological accident: the Continental Shelf, a wide, submerged plain stretching out from the Atlantic Coast. Unlike the prohibitively deep waters off the Pacific Coast, the shelf abounds in shoals where the ocean floor is less than 100 feet down, providing readymade sites for man-made islands...
Conversations à deux. Pierre Mendès-France was a man traveling on momentum. He had no natural following in the Assembly, and had to exploit swiftly the prestige he won at Geneva. But even if he had not promised prompt action on Tunisia, some action would have been required by the situation. In the past month Tunisian terrorists have made 130 attacks on colons and pro-French compatriots, killing 93 victims, wounding...