Word: extents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beneath these demands lay a clash between two different personality styles. P'eng, to some extent, represented the "experts," those who thought the most valuable men to China were the trained and ingenious technicians. Mao Tse-tung, who loathed the "expert" ideal, dismissed P'eng and replaced him with Lin. Mao's ideal man was the "red," a man of lower class background who believed, like Mao, that will power and unquestioned loyalty to socialism and to China would together win the world...
Through it all, Syria trumpeted a bitterly anti-Western line, even to the extent of spreading word that CIA agents were prowling the countryside, vampirelike, to extract Syrian blood for transfusions to wounded G.I.s in Viet...
...have any illusions about the extent of the new American enlightenment. They generally agree that if the Vietnam war were declared and escalated into a major war, it would be much tougher...
...that the rackets do not. A good example is contraception. We can change our policy on birth control in a way that we would not change our policy on armed robbery. And evidently we are changing our policy on birth control. The usury laws may to some extent be a holdover from medieval economics; and some of the laws on prostitution, abortion and contraception were products of the Victorian era and reflect the political power of various church groups. One cannot even deduce from the existence of abortion laws that a majority of the voters, even a majority of enlightened...
This view is shared to some extent by the leaders of the Associated Students of the University of California -- the student government -- who supported last month's strike and withdrew their endorsement only when the faculty demanded an end to the boycott. Because the ASUC held firm despite repeated overtures from the Chancellor to speak with their representatives alone, the ASUC is more widely respected than...