Word: neutrally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...China is to achieve its objectives, it must achieve victory in Viet Nam. Already Peking has suffered considerably by its failure to produce victory in Southeast Asia: North Korea and the once-pro-Peking Japanese Communist Party declared themselves "neutral"' in the Red ideological war last month; Indonesia has shattered the Peking-Djakarta axis; Chinese inroads in Africa and Latin America have been marred by the clumsiest diplomacy of modern times. In Asia today, Peking can count on the support of only a few Communist parties, such as those of Ceylon, Burma and New Zealand...
...seemed possible that the hard-driving Keith might lose command. With Sherfield's appointment, Keith keeps his chief-executive title but loses some range. "He'll look after the outside of the ark," said Keith, "and I'll look after the inside." Bearsted, having found a neutral and popular successor, keeps a seat on the board...
...nomination, like those of the other three Democrats (Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., Industrialist Howard Samuels, County Official Eugene Nickerson), depend heavily on Senator Robert Kennedy, whose muscle in the party power structure is now such that he can pick the candidate at the September nominating convention. Though ostensibly neutral, Kennedy has contributed funds to Roosevelt's campaign, is believed to favor either Roosevelt or Nickerson...
...Haiphong oil installations. With Anglo-American relations at stake, he would be pushed no farther. Summoning Labor M.P.s to a closed-door caucus the day before the Commons debate, he blistered the left-wingers, declared that some of them sought a Viet Cong victory. "What government, Western, Communist or neutral, has done more than the Labor government to seek a peace in Viet Nam?" demanded Wilson. When no one replied, he said dryly: "The silence is deafening and overwhelming...
...restricted himself to a narrower vocabulary than in any other play except The Comedy of Errors. Everything is taut, economical, classical. Although the characters have their own individualities, they appear here in their public personae, and all adopt a nearly uniform neutral kind of classical forensic diction. Cicero himself has only a few words in the play, but his orations, with all their rhetorical questions, seem to have hovered over the writing of the entire drama...