Word: loyalities
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that a cease-fire was impossible to enforce even for the 2,188-man U.N. peace-keeping force, which has been stationed on the troubled island since 1964. Within one day, 6,000 Turks had been put ashore in Cyprus. Not only were the Turkish forces fighting Cypriots loyal to Greece but both Greek and Turkish Cypriots were taking advantage of the invasion to resume fighting among themselves. Ankara was reportedly determined to land three divisions before it would even consider a ceasefire...
...expense. Their problem, as Brecht shows it, is that they have no understanding of dignity beyond the sham that passes for gentility among a capitalist society's ruling class. They have a passion for outward virtue combined with an infinite corruptibility. They parody bourgeois family life, but are loyal only so far as self-protection permits. Peachum is forever misquoting scripture to defend arguments for fraud and betrayal. Tiger Brown's conception of honor is simply his right to a glittering uniform...
...spaghetti dinners start at $1.85 for a good mushroom sauce. The pasta noodles are excellent. The wine list is ordinary, but the prices are reasonable. The restaurant has a loyal clientele, so first-time customers can expect a line at the height of the dinner rush...
...balance," admits the Political Diary, a secret publication circulated among loyal party and government officials in the late '60s, "the U.S. has maintained the strongest position in the world as far as technology and economics are concerned...
...began to be explained away in all sorts of sympathetic, guilt-ridden and ingenious ways. Stampp regarded it as a kind of defense against the pressures of the peculiar institution. Historian Stanley Elkins' Slavery (1959) even suggested that "Sambo, the typical plantation slave ... docile but irresponsible, loyal but lazy, humble but chronically given to lying and stealing," resembled not so much a kind of survivor's soft-shoe sabotage of Massa as the form of demoralization and infantilism that set in among inmates of Nazi concentration camps...