Word: outerness
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...Whitehall's request, Christian Herter, President Kennedy's special representative for trade negotiations, hastened to London to discuss new tariff-cutting strategy between the two nations to increase Anglo-U.S. trade. Britain also started a round of conferences with its hapless friends in the moribund Outer Seven trade bloc, and on a flying trip to Rome, Harold Macmillan assured Italy's leaders of Britain's eagerness for continued cooperation with Europe...
...Market, and 2) France had no interest in the U.S. proposal for a European nuclear force. De Gaulle recalled Britain's refusal to participate in the Common Market when it was abuilding, and charged that London had even tried to destroy the organization by setting up the rival Outer Seven. With obvious relish, De Gaulle explained why he thought Britain was unfit for partnership...
...confused with the whole buttock, which has a lot of fatty tissue lower down. Doctors have a traditional trick for picking the place for the needle. They draw two imaginary lines, one vertical and one horizontal, on the buttock (see diagram) and make the injection into the upper, outer quadrant. But this is risky, says Dr. Hanson, because people are not all built alike, and if the needle goes in a little too close to the midline of the body, it may hit the sciatic nerve...
There is one main exception to his general rule, Dr. Hanson admits. Infants have only small gluteal muscles, and because of their squirming he thinks it is safer to give them injections in the front or outer side of the thigh...
...counteract the existing emotional preconceptions and the partisan vocabulary that clouds East-West writing and thinking, Johnson has tried to invent an entirely neutral language. It avoids metaphor. It examines not souls but outer surfaces, which can be seen and verified. What emerges with surprising vividness is a finely woven texture of physical existence in the East zone. Against this background, a Western reader, spurred by the effort to fill in the outlines of individual emotion only hinted at by the author, soon begins to speculate on small and large moral questions. Sample problem for a border guard...