Word: maine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...country should not be asked, and should not ask of itself, to shoulder the main burden of determining the political realities in any other country, and particularly not in one remote from our shores, from our culture and from the experience of our people. This is not only not our business, but I don't think we can do it successfully...
...these people, I quote the words that I heard exactly three years ago. They went like this: 'Our national strategy, formed upon a bipartisan basis, was to hold the frontiers of freedom by our own main strength until the depleted nations of Europe and Japan could find their feet and begin to share responsibility for the common defense of freedom. Irresponsible partisanship on matters of national interest is not only bad policy: it is bad politics.'" Concluded Scott: "Those are the words of the man who was then and is now the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations...
...berg. The left internal mammary artery, which is not very important in man, is implanted in the heart wall so that its blood flow may reinforce the coronaries. One internal mammary is big enough to carry an adequate blood supply for the entire left ventricle (the heart's main pumping chamber), and if the blood still does not reach all the starved areas, the right mammary artery can be used to supply the right ventricle...
...Stout insists that "good English has no color connotation at all-pride in bad language is foolish." Psychologist Kenneth Clark sees "a great potential" if instruction is presented "in a context of dignity," not condescension-"exactly as French or Russian might be." He considers speech differences "one of the main, if superficial, racial and class irritants," but since "prejudice is made up of such little things, if one or two or three can be taken away, eventually the whole superstructure will fall...
...main obstacle to Blake's election was potential opposition from the influential delegates of Orthodox churches behind the Iron Curtain. Although Blake is well liked by the Orthodox -he led a pioneering team of U.S. church men to Moscow in 1956, and three years ago helped arrange a U.S. tour by representatives of the Russian patriarchate- the council officers feared that Russian delegates might be under governmental pressure to vote against an American. Discreetly assured that this was not so, a special nominating committee of the council then went ahead to propose Blake...