Word: fears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Russian diplomatic gains elsewhere in the world, particularly in the Middle East, have also decreased Europe's confidence in American strategy and strength. The failure of U.S. policy, or the lack of it, in the Middle East leads many on the Continent to fear that Washington's policy elsewhere is equally impotent...
...missile capable of intercepting an ICBM, but both the Army and the Air Force are working on "aunties" (Pentagon slang for antimissile missiles). An auntie would have to perform with fantastically superfine precision-unattainable, some scientists fear-in order to find a remote target moving at 15,000 m.p.h., but if it does prove to be feasible, auntie plus ORDIR would take the ultimateness out of the ultimate weapon...
...pounce upon the unwary worker, particularly on paydays, relieving him of his wallet and sometimes pushing him clean off the train if he resists. Even in the darkness of the stations and the roads near by, the Tsotsis wait to attack the worker as he races, blind with fear, from the station to his squalid home. Tsotsism is a problem older than the Boer government's apartheid policy, but apartheid has aggravated...
...company at 18, is the strongest Indian voice raised against efforts to destroy free enterprise. His reports to stockholders warn Indians against being fooled about state control of economic life. Only a handful of men. says he, can be motivated by pure service. The rest must be driven by fear or actuated by hope of gain, as in the United States, which he publicly defends as the ideal of a welfare state that has not sacrificed efficiency or freedom. But Tata is impatient of Americans, feels they do not understand his country's "mixed economy," says: "I wish that...
...women in the cast suffer from rigor mortis; their movements and voices are lifeless, and they read their lines. The play does, however, achieve a consistent dullness, which lets the drowsy theatre-goer sleep without fear of missing a thing...