Word: objections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...demonstrations and strikes. Whenever Communists have threatened to fill the streets in anti-Western rampages, the presence of heavily armed troops has forced them to back off. Nasution is believed to be behind the Cabinet's decision to postpone the national elections scheduled for 1959, with the object of giving the anti-Communist parties time to rally their forces against the Reds...
...deliberative baritone) appears all right, and eagles mount at his command, but when the thunder has subsided and the baritone passed away, J.B. is no longer the Biblical Job, no longer a vile creature in the maw of the great enigma, no longer the object lesson in a parable. He accepts neither "the blood nor the bowing"; he forgives God for his senseless test; J.B. (and man) becomes the hero, in his capacity to accept life on its own terms, in his willingness to love and love again, to accept love in place of "justice...
...southeast between the Mashona and the fierce Matabele were only a distant rumbling. To frustrate Arab slave raiders, the Batonga took a typical way out: their women were ordered to knock out their four upper incisors and insert porcupine quills and twigs through holes bored in their noses. Object: to lessen their attractiveness and, therefore, their value in the slave marts. When the white men arrived and broke the power of the Matabele with guns and treaties, the Batonga submitted quietly and kept on as before...
...Spin. Since Pioneer III never approached the moon, not all its instruments came into play. The most novel one was an optical gadget designed to send a radio signal when it saw a bright object the size of the moon at a distance of 22,000 miles. The instrument was shielded from the sun, and it would have been activated by a timing device only after the receding earth looked smaller than the approaching moon...
...nation must acknowledge its own limitations to exert power and recognize that firmness is not in itself a policy but a part of a policy. Expending force in a moral vacuum is like chasing butteries in the jungle: you soon stumble in your haste to capture an ever elusive object. In the power game, furthermore, the rules require those players whose stakes are only power to play with partners who likewise seek or possess power. And this leads to the United States' forming alliances with reactionary, undemocratic governments whose position of authority is supported by instruments of force and oppression...