Word: imperialistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strike, comes to symbolize the Communist answer to the Head of State's corrupt method. Though he does not succeed in bringing about a popular revolution, near the end of the book The Student surfaces in Paris as he is leaving for the "First World Conference on Colonial and Imperialist Politics" in the company of Jawaharlal Nehru. He is moving into the future, while the Head of State erodes in his senile Parisian exile...
...argues, was Lawrence's need for redemption--a need spurred not only by his shame about being a bastard, but also by the secret life his unwed parents led in order to evade public scorn and prejudice. What better reason for identifying with a people under the yoke of imperialist domination than his own haunting memories of his mother's rigid morality? (An illegitimate child herself, she pleaded with each of her three sons to redeem her by becoming missionaries...
...Hanoi regarding the possibility that the U.S. would reintervene in the South. In the end, however, Hanoi determined that the U.S. would probably stay out. One important factor: Watergate. Says Dung: "The Watergate scandal had seriously affected the entire U.S. and precipitated the resignation of an extremely reactionary, imperialist President-Nixon...
...merchant marine that has already opened a new era of commercial competition on the high seas.* Soviet shippers are plying routes to every major port, from San Francisco to Dar es Salaam, Hamburg to Mombasa. It is almost as if the Russians were following the turn-of-the-century imperialist dictum: "Trade follows the flag...
...Scott says that every day, he received either subtle or overt peer pressure about the Vietnam War. During these years, he says, he was popular and adjusted in school--he was elected class president and spoke French without an accent; but gangs would scream epithets like "Yankee Murderer" or "Imperialist...