Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from being elected," declares Columbia Sovietologist Zbigniew Brzezinski, a Humphrey adviser. "And you can say they are doing it because they think that if he's elected, tensions will increase." "They are concerned," adds Yale Political Scientist Frederick Barghoorn, "about creating pressure against anyone who is for a hard-line American policy. If they could swing a couple hundred thousand votes against Nixon, they would do it." Other Kremlinologists doubt, however, that the Russians would base their policy on so uncertain a premise...
...come when Hitler dismembered the country in 1938 or when the Russians organized a Communist coup in 1948. Last week Czechoslovakia's 14,300,000 citizens found themselves in a desperate situation once again, faced with a massive threat to their independence from the Soviet Union and its hard-lining allies. Despite verbal pledges of support from some of its Communist neighbors and muted cheers from the West, the country knew from experience that, whatever happened, it could expect no real help from the outside. In a moment of peril, it could rely only on its own political acumen...
...showing no signs of letting up. "Our goals must be containment of expenses, austerity by everybody," he says. "The self-immolation of a society because of passivity is a philosophy that we will never accept. I'm in the ring and I'm fighting as hard...
...Brooks was not commenting on the races which brought the Harvard Eight a trip to Mexico City in October and a chance to compete for the United States in the world-wide athletic games. He was talking about the strain of coming back after a layoff to the hard work which the whole team faced for many months ahead. The race had been worth it, but the respite wasn...
...cruelty of their lines to each other is intensified by the mutual fear that the actors convey. Sheila Hart starts out sounding like Paul McCartney's grandfather in "A Hard Day's Night", but soon turns chillingly vicious...