Word: neutralize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were fighting in ten separate locations in southern Nicaragua, though the Sandinistas acknowledged fighting in only one. The rebel announcement came as something of an embarrassment to Costa Rican President Luis Alberto Monge. Even as the attacks were under way, Monge had been reaffirming that Costa Rica was "permanently neutral" in international conflicts...
...first chance to write 1984 in a diary or on a letter or check. Orwell spelled his title out, a practice followed in the first editions: the book had a name, like Utopia or Leviathan, not a date. But the shorthand 1984 also gained wide currency. And those four neutral integers, fused so long in the public consciousness, have acquired the shimmering, brutal power of the hieroglyph...
...whole sordid affair was its almost certain lack of effectiveness. No doubt the Pentagon chief returned to Washington more convinced than ever that he's making the right decisions--a result neither the hecklers not many responsible students and citizens could possible desire Moreover, it is entirely plausible that neutral members of the Sanders Theater audience and the TV news audience that evening felt sympathy for the Administration line, it only because the Secretary maintained his composure in the face of extreme discourtesy. Curiously enough, a silent protest during the whole speech involving people draped with blood-stained garments labeled...
Robert E. Klitgaard '68, associate professor of public policy, says "The center of gravity was working for change in government, but in a politically neutral sense." A picture of John F. Kennedy hangs in the school's main lobby. But Klitgaurd insists that "nobody sits around and raises their hands in allegiance...
...University Avoids Confronting Harassment" would have been a better and more accurate title for your article on the release of the survey results (10-27-83, p.3). Sometimes journalists, in their endeavor to find neutral sounding language, can give a mistakenly positive picture of things. Amy Glarckman...