Word: focuses
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Recognizing that the Rio Pact and the OAS Charter, with their focus on "armed attack" and "aggression," could not cope with Communist subversion in Latin America, an American conference in Caracas in 1954, under the leadership of U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, voted to broaden the concept of collective security. At Dulles' urging, the conference adopted a resolution declaring that "domination or control of the political institutions of any American State by the international Communist movement . . . would constitute a threat to the sovereignty and political independence of the American States, endangering the peace of America, and would...
...hour of his life, Alan Shepard could afford to forget the intricate complex of rescue gear that had been guarding his path from Pad 5 to U.S.S. Lake Champlain. Few men in history have been watched over so cautiously. Long before he blasted off, Astronaut Shepard had become the focus of a vast deployment of equipment and personnel. Everything imaginable had been done to ensure his safety...
...earlier works, though his palette was muted, the focus was as sharp as a photograph. Gradually, the brushwork loosened, until it seemed as if a veil had dropped between the artist and reality. His landscapes may be literal, but they are seen as if in a dream (see color), his people, almost always empty-eyed, seem to live in a trance. They are sleepwalkers, whose minds and bodies are a world apart. And for the most part, they are children, usually adolescent girls...
Eyewitness to History (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). Walter Cronkite and CBS reporters focus on a major news story of the week...
...Euripides developed it, the tragedy was nature's rebuke to pride. Hippolytus had ignored the elemental force of love. In Racine's hands, the focus is on the hysteric furor of a woman scorned, the unrequited love that becomes undiluted hate. Phaedra's pathos is to writhe vainly in a jungle of untamed instincts...