Word: impetuses
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...Asian peace conference, as some had hoped. There appeared no agreement on Japan's expanding role as an Asian power. There was no give on the problem of divided Korea. What was said about the threat of the Soviet Union, which after all was the principal impetus for getting together in the first place, only the participants know as yet. The communiqué deplored any effort by countries to gang up on one another, and Kissinger took pains in his press conference to assert that the new U.S. relationship with China "is not directed against the Soviet Union...
...against "flipping through Speak, Memory [Nabokov's autobiography] in quest of duplicate items." Instead, the dutiful reader -always feeling vaguely inferior to the ideal Russian reader-is urged to concentrate on "the echoing and linking of minor events, in back-and-forth switches, which produce an illusion of impetus: in an old daydream...
Part of the impetus for extending care to dependents comes from the underutilization of Stillman Infirmary, which is usually never more than half full. "The resources here are quite good to do something about medical care delivery," Wacker said. "But there's a certain amount of inertia to get anything going...
...through distorted vision, Could mind perceive this tutor of pigeons To be the impetus unwilling Behind new sprees of trashing buildings...
When she is not singing, she is talking. Speech, no less than song, pours out of her with the impetus of a natural force?gossip and insights, shopping lists and philosophy, sly jokes and probing questions. Once, her physician told her that she needed a tetanus shot. "What will happen if I don't take it?" she asked. "You might not be able to talk for a few days," he said. "Quick," she cried, "give me the shot...