Word: neutralizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tournament of Noses. The President-elect became an impassioned, if studiedly neutral fan inside Pasadena's huge stadium, despite the fact that Pat Nixon is a graduate of the Pacific Eight champion, Southern Cal. He leaped to his feet when Heisman Trophy Winner O. J. Simpson took off on his 80-yard touchdown run and summoned with rapid gestures his own version of instant replay for the benefit of former Oklahoma Football Coach Bud Wilkinson, who sat on Nixon's right. A reporter inquired if Nixon was attending his first Rose Bowl game...
Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Zurich)-The most individual, the most serious, the most responsible and the most cosmopolitan. From its lofty pinnacle in its neutral and freedom-loving country, it views all the world with a cold and intellectual detachment...
Those days, when a fighter did not have to go to a neutral corner after a knockdown, are over. Willard did not have a chance, and for the remainder of his life he bitterly accused Dempsey of carrying "a bolt" or "chunks of cement" in his gloves. In all, Willard scored 20 knockouts in 36 fights. If he was not a truly legendary champion, it was perhaps because he lacked one essential ingredient. As he once said: "I never wanted to hurt anybody...
Catacomb Christianity. The prophetic critic of Nazism mellowed into an enigmatic neutral during the cold war. In 1945, he defended the return of political freedom to the German people, who, he said, had been Hitler's first victims. He consistently refused to condemn the aggressions of Russia with anything like the same vigor with which he had challenged Hitler. Unlike Nazism, Barth argued, Communism was a totally materialistic philosophy whose frank atheism represented no threat to the internal authenticity of the church. He thus refused to protest the Communist invasion of Hungary-although when a friend visited...
...scene shifts to the fabled ruins of Angkor, Director Sihanouk's favorite location, Star Sihanouk convinces Star Monique that he is not a Communist, as she has been led to believe, but indeed a neutral. Love blossoms. The spies are trapped with a radio and a trunkful of gold, and their plot is foiled. But the ambassadress must leave, and she flies off into the twilight as the hero stands at mournful attention on the airstrip...