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Word: maladroit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...true faith. But as the Sino-Soviet pact became ten years old, it was Johnny-Come-Lately Nikita Khrushchev who had to go to China's rescue. It had been a disastrous year for China: troubles in the communes, the bloody repression of Tibet, Peking's maladroit handling of India, its antagonizing of Burma and Indonesia. It now requires Khrushchev's hardest efforts (he got a smaller hello last week in India than did Eisenhower) to try to retrieve Communism's sagging fortunes in Asia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Creaking Axis | 2/22/1960 | See Source »

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