Word: nonextremist
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...Obama was careful to avoid the phrase global war on terror in his Inaugural Address. Instead, there will be a steady drip-drip-drip of diplomacy, especially on neglected issues like nuclear proliferation. Even in the war zones, the Obama Administration will be talking relentlessly - trying to bring the nonextremist Taliban tribes into the Afghan government, trying to establish coalitions of Iraq's and Afghanistan's neighbors (including Iran) to help lower the tensions, hoping the steady accretion of talk and trust will bring the Israelis and Palestinians to a point at which they can begin negotiating a real peace...
Farmer, 45, a Howard University divinity graduate, helped organize CORE in 1942. He has made it the most militant nonextremist group in the civil rights movement. Attractive, articulate and aggressive, Farmer has also propelled himself into the confidence of the Johnson Administration...
Worst of Life. Cozzens here turns the same unsmiling, nonextremist conservative eye on the U.S. school (Eastern prep division) which he has cast on other U.S. institutions-marriage and the law (By Love Possessed), the military establishment (Guard of Honor), the clergy (Men and Brethren), and medicine (The Last Adam). In the past, the animator has been an individual who, by partial dissent, has lifted the various strands of a society into a tension which made them as visible as struts in a Dymaxion dome...
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