Word: exploits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gone-they signed a pledge never again to fight in Africa-and the country on a more sensible course at least temporarily, the Congo finally has a chance. It is richer in natural resources-copper, tin, cobalt, industrial diamonds-than almost any other African nation. With the opportunity to exploit them in peace, it could become a model of prosperity rather than of chaos...
...times embarrassing-host. While Jackie was in Angkor, he had called a press conference to lecture the captive visiting newsmen on his pet peeve: references to "tiny" Cambodia in the foreign press. He said that "America did not come to Asia to help yellow people; it came to exploit Asia as a neocolonialist power." Later, he took time out from escorting Jackie to receive the new Czech Ambassador to Cambodia and condemn "the criminal American aggression against Viet Nam that menaces our country"-while his Foreign Affairs Ministry issued one of its frequent denunciations of America's "barbarous bombings...
...Little Foxes is a play about money. Tough characters fight for it, weep about not having enough of it, dream about waterfalls of golden nickels. They exploit anyone with less than a Midas mind...
Danius Turek plays a second masterful creation, Archibald Grosvenor, taciturn lyric poet, indomitable narcissist: in short dear chorines, the single apple of your collective eye. Men do not care for him. Turek is limited by an approximately normal skeletal structure, forcing him to exploit the variety of stuffed poses of which he is capable. He charts the attitude of pomposity with a mathematical vigor, with glorious shamelessness impossible since Freud's tinkerings...
...North has also been using ground radar in a more sophisticated fashion to track incoming bombers and has enabled its pilots to exploit an American blind spot. Knowing that U.S. pilots have to locate their targets-and must take pains to avoid restricted areas-the MIGs have been climbing above the clouds and out of sight to await the attackers. Then they swoop down like hawks, rip through a U.S. squadron with guns ablaze and vanish into the blue. With such tactics, the MIGs have lately shot down almost as many planes as they have lost-though the U.S. still...