Word: exploits
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Open Question. To exploit the U.S.'s propaganda advantage. Kennedy decided to make no mention of his plans to resume tests until some time after the Russians exploded their first bomb, an event he expected momentarily. In the meantime. Russia would stand revealed to the world as the atomic aggressor. Thus, Kennedy's first public statement, issued Wednesday night at 9:50, declared that the Soviet Union's decision "presents a threat to the entire world by increasing the dangers of a thermonuclear holocaust.'' But the statement left Kennedy's own plans purposefully vague...
...book suggests all of the obvious clues to why, by 1% of the votes, the election went the way it did: the TV debates; Bobby Kennedy's telephone call to Martin Luther King Sr. when his son was jailed; the failure to exploit the dismal summer session of Congress; the drift of Catholics and other minorities...
...leaders, and with nobody else. Already we have torn open the clenched fist of Communist control of many unions." Says Quadros himself: "Communists only profit from the ignorance that afflicts many of my countrymen. They have no interest whatsoever in a democratic and prosperous Brazil. They seek only to exploit misery...
...Nixon's position is probably the sanest criticism of the Castro proposal, since Nixon is simply capitalizing on the American public's worry about its prestige abroad, a concern that cost Nixon votes in the recent campaign. But in the more extreme versions of this attempt to exploit Castro's offer by crying blackmail, there are ugly hints of another cry that one would prefer not to hear in American politics again: appeasement...
...these pieces did not exploit the expressive possibilities of the medium, Alan Hovhaness' Tower Music did More than any other work, it had the stamp of a personal style. The loneliness of the Tower Music's themes and open fifths recalls the same composer's Mysterious Mountain. Unfortunately, it lacks the other's movement and contrasts: chord progressions march ponderously, and the melody must try awkwardly to mitigate the resulting heaviness. Nor did the performance help to contribute any motion or variation, although some nuance was apparent, especially in an oboe solo...