Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...China's Yang Yun-yu returned the ball to the Soviets by lashing the U.S. for using nuclear blackmail "to enslave the world," attacking John Kennedy for his cunning "strategy" to divide China and the Soviet Union, and insisting that the foremost problem was not peaceful coexistence but maintaining the active struggle against imperialism. "How," she demanded, "can the oppressed coexist with their oppressors?" Lotte Ulbricht replied that Madame Yang was way off base. No one was demanding that oppressed nations live happily with their oppressors, she said, and added that Russia was, as always, "wholeheartedly behind the revolutionary...
...Class of 1938's sophomore year drew to a close, History of Science was added to the University's 25 fields of concentration. Another event in the academic world: its foremost Shakespearean scholar, George Lyman Kittredge '82, resigned from the University's faculty after several decades as Gurney Professor of English Literature. Alfred North While head, distinguished philosopher and teacher, followed Kittredge into retirement at the end of the term...
...foreign investments in Mexico and raise large foreign loans for the Mexican government as well as for Pagliai's new aluminum plant, which is owned 35% by Pagliai's interests and 35% by the U.S.'s Alcoa. It is small wonder that he has become the foremost evangelist for U.S. investment in Mexico, and likes to needle gringos who will not take a chance: "Did the people who developed the Wild West cover their covered wagons with insurance...
...Supreme Court Frankfurter became the foremost spokesman for the judicial conservative wing, famous for his sharp dissents to "activist" Court decisions, such as in the Tennessee reappointment case...
...foremost advocates of the "realistic" approach to foreign policy, Kennan is the principle author of the policy of containment which was adopted by the United States in the late...