Word: kinships
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...question of dealing with "our enemies, the Communists," or of being calm and practical in bargaining with "enemy powers"--in this crisis the only enemy is self-wrought destruction. It is a situation which ought to shock us and to force upon us the recognition of a kinship, of a responsibility which is shared by all who have the power to push the button, and of a catastrophe which will be shared universally. There is an urgency about the condition of the present world which leaves no room for personal advantage or for the personal or national dignity of staying...
...after the other, the representatives of all nations assumed their positions, like figures from a child's geography book. Each was marked by his heritage and by the power of his own historical thrust. Each, by his ideological kinship or by his ostentatious neutralism, had a role to play in the world power struggle...
...Republican who inspires a thump of political kinship in the hearts of Virginia Democrats is Arizona's deep-dyed conservative. Senator Barry Goldwater. On a raid into the Old Dominion last week, Goldwater publicly assured Virginians that they could interpret the silence of their own Democratic patriarch, Senator Harry Flood Byrd, 73. about the Kennedy-Johnson ticket as "sufficient instruction'' to vote for Nixon-Lodge. In rebuttal, Virginia's Governor J. Lindsay Almond, sometime Byrdman who has gradually set up a separate camp of his own, spoke up for Jack Kennedy and seized the chance...
...brothel, a strip joint, a hotel room-never once trying for the sensational or playing up the shoddy for its own sake. Having skillfully drawn the Williamses as offbeat types, he makes it effectively plain in the end that what makes them important is not their oddness but their kinship to humanity...
...help -and was reluctant to lose the battle-hardened Australian troops in the Middle East. "Without any inhibitions of any kind," wrote Prime Minister Curtin in January 1941, "I make it quite clear that Australia looks to America, free of any pangs as to our traditional links or kinship with the United Kingdom...