Word: exploits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Francisco meeting. A new network of mutual defense treaties-between the U.S. and the Philippines, between the U.S. and Japan, a third among the U.S., New Zealand and Australia-projected U.S. strength into the Pacific as a stabilizing force against the old rivalries that Communism loves to exploit. They set the stage for the next episode in strengthening the free world this week-the Big Three Foreign Ministers conference in Washington, and the Ottawa conference of the North Atlantic Treaty powers...
...Jerome W. Goodman's exploit is reminiscent of a similar expose conducted two years ago of the Communist-dominated youth festival in Budapest, Hungary. At that time the Red satellites were anxious to convert the free world, and entry was far easier...
Without conscious malice, Mikki just about erased the Vaughns. Among Mikki's victims-as Ellen learns in playback sessions-were her stubborn father and brilliant elder brother. She hears the two in vicious argument over how best to exploit the machine's commercial possibilities, then grappling together on the ledge of the family's Manhattan penthouse, at last silent as they topple to their deaths. Casually, the unblinking Mikki goes on to expose the most shattering truth of all: the nice young gent who has been praising Ellen's pretty blue eyes is really trying...
...raising our own [barbarian] . . . he mass man, the self-satisfied man [who] accepts as part of the order of nature all the wonderful achievements of his own civilization . . . takes them as given, feels no personal responsibility for the society which has made them possible. He expects to use and exploit them. He prides himself on being the average man. If he admires anything outside himself, it is the 'smart operator,' the getter-by, the fixer...
...ground for which the Chinese had paid so heavily in blood. Said Van Fleet: "The 38th parallel has no significance in the present tactical situation. It means nothing to me. The Eighth Army will go wherever the situation dictates in hot pursuit of the enemy. We intend to exploit every advantage in carrying out our objective to find and kill them...