Word: main
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fairbank argued that Taiwan offered the main opportunity for "trying to understand the Chinese world." The help of a strong Taiwan was, Fairbank urged, necessary to "defend ourselves in the idea-logical cold...
Ravenel called a very imaginative game indeed, but there can be no doubt that the Crimson's attack was somewhat crippled by the ineffectiveness of its basic running plays. The Tigers operated from behind two main defensive alignments (a 6-2-3 and a 5-3-3), both of which stopped Crimson line thrusts just as effectively as the varsity turned back similar Princeton plays...
Summoning the top officers of the armed forces, General Ne Win defined his main tasks as 1) providing free and fair elections within six months, and 2) bringing peace to war-torn Burma. He ordered his officers to take "stern measures" against the Red insurgents in the countryside and their fifth columns in the towns and cities. He charged his officers to be "umpires" between the competing political parties girding for the spring elections, and cautioned them "to take very good care that no one will be able to accuse you of showing favor to this one or suppressing that...
Three times during the procession to the main altar the Pope was halted by the master of ceremonies to receive a small brazier of glowing coals and a handful of flax that the Pope threw upon the fire. Then, as the flax flared up and was gone in a puff of smoke, the master of ceremonies looked into the Pontiff's eyes and intoned the ancient warning: "Pater sancte, sic transit gloria mundi" (Holy Father, thus passes the glory of the world). In the course of the Mass, an assisting cardinal placed on the Pope's shoulders...
...varsity's main problem today will be a defensive one. The Tigers have an extremely fine backfield, and their precise, single-wing attack is always a source of worry for teams (like Harvard) accustomed to defending against...