Word: maneuverers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tantalizing Clues. To a world that had hoped for changes after Stalin's death, the eight-day offensive was bewildering, welcome, sinister. Statesmen, pundits and plain reporters marshaled and studied the facts. What did they portend? A basic change of attitude in the U.S.S.R.? An elaborate maneuver to screen...
You drive through the thickly populated Kikuyu reserve, where shaven-headed Kikuyu women stagger under headloads that would shatter the spines of pack mules, and the closely clustered thatched mud huts look like shaggy beehives. Then you come to the edge of the escarpment, and the Rift Valley lies below...
The reviewer has what, in the opinion of the editors, are the necessary qualifications; knowledge of modern fiction and poetry, the ability to express that knowledge in clear English prose, and a sympathy with the writer of short stories and poetry--he is currently enrolled in an advanced composition course...
They heard Smith moving his furniture, tapping the floor, stomping about, vacuum cleaning, banging the garbage pail, shoveling coal at all hours of the day & night, digging after dark in a garden by the Masons' windows. As soon as he went out, his telephone began ringing. Then they began...
The amendment would further weaken already feeble ability to cooperate with other nations. The check and balance system, entrenches the executive in a welter of prohibitions. To make Senate approval a requisite for every diplomatic maneuver would immeasurably slow international agreement.