Word: neutral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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However, talks with African students at the Helsinki Festival who had studied in Eastern Europe, the general reaction of "neutral" delegates to the Festival, and several incidents like the Sofia outbreak would indicate that the Soviet Union is running into a great deal of trouble in its attempt to win over the youth of the new nations of Africa and Asia...
Most of what Updike has said so far, important or not, has remained well within the neutral middle range of emotion and event. His heroes, particularly those of his short stories, tend to be young boys or young husbands whose problems are small, and whose perceptions, although perfect and sometimes intense, are small also. The sole (and partial) exception is his novel of Everyslob, Rabbit, Run. Here his hero is a former high school basketball star whose memories of past glory give him immortal longings. When his life runs aground in the shallows of marriage, he is moved in anguish...
...from headquarters in 1952 when Bank of America was obliged to surrender control of Transamerica Corp. where he was then working, Peterson could not immediately return to Bank of America without touching off a talent war between the bank and Transamerica. So he retired to a neutral corner as president of the Bank of Hawaii, was finally called back to Bank of America...
...second lecture, Gaitskell proposed the creation of a European neutral bloc including both Germany and the Soviet satellites. The neutrals' security, he said, would be "guaranteed by the Great Powers as well as by each other...
...neutral that always believes in being well armed, Sweden since World War II has poured billions of kronor into a potent 700-plane jet air force. Forgoing bombers, the Swedes have concentrated on interceptors, ground-attack and reconnaissance planes. But even to maintain three kinds of military aircraft is a heavy economic burden on so small a country. To cut costs, the Swedes have now designed a plane to do all three jobs: the all-weather, Mach 2-plus Viggen...