Word: fostered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...operating against her borders. Then, speaking loftily of "separating the belligerents" and "protecting" the canal, Britain and France ordered Egypt to surrender its control to them; when Egypt refused, they began bombing Cairo and Port Said. In the end, amid the angry protests of the U.S.'s John Foster Dulles and a rattle of rockets from Moscow, the three countries finally withdrew in ignominy...
...CAGE: VARIATIONS IV (Everest). Composer Cage arranges a curious counterpoint to the playing of David Tudor by splicing a variety of noises into the staccato piano theme: the sound of traffic on the street outside, a patrician English girl chattering nervously, a chanteuse, a coloratura, a boy soprano, Florence Foster Jenkins murdering high D at the end of the Queen of the Night's aria from The Magic Flute. Oddly but irresistibly, they add up to a cry from the heart...
...Reading about the South Vietnamese Buddhists [June 10], whose primary purpose seems to be to foster instability in their country, I have come to wonder whether "bonze," the title of their leaders, is a derivative of banza, a Hausa word of West Africa meaning "emptiness, vanity, worthlessness, cheapness...
...philosopher seem esoteric or divorced from reality," he once said, "it's the fault of the phi losopher." Hocking himself vigorously applied his vision to the realm of pub lic debate. He championed the Arab cause against Israel and criticized the cold-war policy of John Foster Dulles as being too negative. He was unafraid to prophesy: he once predicted that "we shall see in the Orient the rise of a Christianity far outpassing that which we of the West have conceived;" long before the Sino-Soviet split, he argued that history was pushing the U.S. and Russia closer...
...fingered by some drivers was Canada's Billy Foster, 28, a hot shoe in his second year at Indianapolis. At the prerace safety meeting, track officials repeatedly warned against trying to steal too much ground on the closely packed first lap. Foster missed part of the meeting, and perhaps the message. To careful observers, it seemed that Foster, from his starting position on the outside of the fourth row, thought he saw daylight in the middle of the third row, tried to squeeze through, and missed. He bumped into the man ahead, starting the chain-reaction crash. Foster denied...