Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Europeans are fearful that the U.S. plans to make further cuts in its 210,000-man troop level in West Germany; they consider airlifts from the U.S. no substitute for forces permanently based on European soil. No one pretends, however, that ground forces are anything but a first line of defense for Western Europe?especially now that the Soviets have more troops in Eastern Europe, and closer to the West's defense perimeter, than at any time since 1945. The Czechoslovak experience cast grave doubt on the once-fashionable doctrine of graduated response. Behind the troops must...
...when France brusquely refused to participate in a London meeting of the Western European Union called to discuss approaches to a settlement of the Middle East crisis. The WEU, an international organization consisting of Britain and the six Common Market countries, was established in 1955, and laid out the ground rules for West German rearmament, notably a ban on development of nuclear weapons by Bonn. Since then, it has met intermittently to talk over defense questions and other problems of shared interest...
...worst snowstorm in Massachusetts history added 22 more inches to the two feet of snow already on the ground yesterday. Civil Defense officials said the situation is about to become critical...
When there's two feet of snow on the ground and three feet of slush in the streets, people in Cambridge tend to find strange escapes. Some even take to snow-diving, a cold but existential sport...
...alienating process of controlling and being controlled by others. Laing calls for tolerance and exploration of modes of experience other than egoic in which the world and the self are experienced "in terms of a consistent identity, a me-here over against you-there, within a framework of certain ground structures of space and time shared with other members of society." The ego is both the product and the instrument of socialization. Alienation is ego-tripping, the predict of excessive adjustment to society. By dissolving the ego, the self can be resurrected and can enter other worlds of "inner" space...