Word: monoliths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shot even though the moon would have been easier to hit. on other dates. Khrushchev violated every hallowed canon of Communist solidarity when he intervened between Communist China and India to calm down the Himalayan border crisis (see FOREIGN NEWS), thereby advertising to the world that Communism's monolith has its flaws. And his U.N. delegation acquiesced almost amiably in the decision to send a fact-finding commission to Laos...
Behind the flinty monolith of his public image stands a suspicious and emotional man, whose impulsiveness is generally held in check. Last week, at 83, under the duress of his days and years, der Alte came to his loneliest decision. Suddenly and dramatically, the greatest German Chancellor since Bismarck signified his readiness to give up his powerful office after ten years, for the more honorific post of President. It was his own decision, and yet the emotional overtones of his act showed that he was reluctantly anticipating a painful reality...
About a half a mile from the industrial monolith, the campus of 2,500-student Lehigh University, stands above and apart from Bethlehem, on the steep slope of South Mountain...
...happy Fitzgerald days he showed Rhoda a world she could not even imagine. But no matter how much Tom earned, Rhoda could not get over the fear that the theater was a precarious life. Her fetish was security, and when she met Presley Brake, founder of Monolith Security Mutual. Tom said: "I know Rhoda's going to love him." She did not, but while Tom was away in World War II, she married...
...make decisions respecting other free nations unilaterally or bilaterally with the Soviets. There has got to be an agreement in which the affected countries must be participants . . . We have established the NATO association realizing that the defense of the free world must work by cooperation when confronted by a monolith of force and power so great as the strength of the Communist area . . . We must not make a unilateral proposal that we go out, or that we demilitarize all Central Europe...