Word: gain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Regional and multilateral responsibility is the only way in which small and medium sized nations--particularly those living near the borders of the great powers--will be able to gain the collective strength necessary goth to withstand the pressure of internal aggression and/or subversion and muster the economic and social resources which few have within their own limited means...
...must exercise their power as consumers in order to create an identity for themselves. He cited the success of his efforts to force the 40 A & P stores in Chicago's black neighborhoods to hire black managers and invest their profit in black banks as proof that blacks could gain tangible advantages from consumer boycott tactics...
Splits Within Splits. In the free world, Communist anger at Moscow is greatest in Western Europe, where Communist parties are strongest. Since these parties seek to gain power by votes, and not by revolution, a liberalizing Czechoslovakia was an excellent advertisement for the image of Communism that they wished to project. Now that the Soviets have shattered that benign image, these parties are understandably anxious to dissociate themselves from this aspect of Moscow's policy. Italian Communist Chief Luigi Longo. whose party is Europe's largest, flatly declared that the Communist movement no longer has "centralized direction...
Shortly after the coup, the U.S. suspended shipments of heavy weaponry, such as tanks and jet fighters, to Greece's NATO-committed armed forces-though the flow of small arms, ammunition and spare parts was allowed to continue. By so doing, the U.S. hoped to gain leverage over the colonels in order to persuade them to return the country to democratic rule. The effort failed...
...equally obscene murders later, the community is hysterical but the cops are still as empty-handed as they are empty-headed. Their few scraps of fact have only served to compound the confusion. What kind of man would violate women with wine bottles and brooms? How could he gain entrance to so many apartments without using burglar tools? How can he murder with such blind, mindless ferocity and still leave no usable clues...