Word: neutralization
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...Government Is Neutral." At least 30 states either require or authorize Bible readings in public schools; for about half of all the schoolchildren in the U.S., the school day begins with religious exercises that include Bible verses or the Lord's Prayer or both. Among those who will not be affected by the ruling are the children on whose behalf Mr. and Mrs. Schempp brought their suit: the two youngsters were graduated from Abington Senior High School, near Philadelphia, a few days before the court handed down its decision...
Socialist leaders called Otto's projected return a "provocation" that threatened Austria's precarious neutral position as a buffer between East and West...
Peace was one of John's favorite words; to achieve it, he believed that the church should appear as a witness to the whole world, actively neutral between East and West. Without displacing the church's traditional ideological objections to Communism, he began exploring the possibility of a political concord with the East that would ease Red pressure on the Iron Curtain churches. His was a politic based more on love than on geopolitical realities. When he was editing Pacem in Terris and came to a sentence that noted how both sides in the cold war had entered...
...flush six Red battalions and a headquarters company from its longtime stronghold in the mountains. Main object of the month-long operation was to destroy Viet Cong food caches and cut the Reds' main supply line, the 400-mile Ho Chi Minh trail to North Viet Nam through neutral Laos. The Reds had plainly evacuated the area in advance, but Vietnamese officials explained that they did not aim to kill Viet Cong guerrillas, only to isolate them. If successful, said one, the sweep "wall solve 50% of our military problems in the central highlands." Not so, retorted some...
Going into the final race of the series, Harvard and U.R.I. were tied with 133 points each. U.R.I. had the advantage throughout the series of familiarity with the class of boats being raced (Beverly dinghies), although the race was held in neutral waters...