Word: fear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Superior Power. What caused Peking's retreat? Most Western analysts were certain that the Chinese backed down out of fear. Moscow's hints of preventive nuclear strikes finally convinced at least one faction of Peking's leadership that the Russians meant business and the time had come to face reality and yield before superior Soviet power. Another possibility, of course, was that the Chinese were simply buying time to get through a highly dangerous phase in the conflict and stop the shooting. That would be in line with one of Chairman Mao Tse-tung's dictums...
Virtuoso Stock. Martin's patient is Lord Fortnum (Ralph Richardson), who lives in morbid fear of turning into a bed sitting room. He eventually does, of course. Just the way Penelope's Mum (Mona Washbourne) turns into a dresser and her Dad (Arthur Lowe) into a parrot, while Penelope herself (Rita Tushingham) takes 17 months to give birth to one baby and about 37 seconds to deliver herself of a second. All this goes on while the police (Peter Cook and Dudley Moore) fly overhead in a rusted-out patrol car suspended from the end of a helium...
...Zorza compared the differences between the two groups to "two detergent companies competing in their advertising" - but admitted that the fear among many Moratorium people goes deeper than that...
...strongly fear" that the SMC is controlled by YSA, which is "attempting to infiltrate the anti-war movement...
...There is a lot of fear that the SMC people are the old YSA people, and a desire that old left-wing splinter groups shouldn't dominate the movement," one Moratorium spokesman said yesterday. "On the other hand, they accuse us of unnecessary red-baiting, and feel that we sold out to the Democratic party...