Word: overwhelms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...played a minor role-was a well-planned hoax, he preferred to suppose that "someone innocently threw the bone fragments from a neighborhood cottage into the ditch." In his philosophy, evil was to be endured as part of inevitable progress toward good. Sometimes, in fact, his optimism could overwhelm his apprehension of evil; once during a debate that covered the Nazi experiments at Dachau, he told an astonished audience that "man, to become fully man, must have tried everything to the very...
...embarassment of riches offered by the Magic Movies series threatens to overwhelm the viewer at times. A dozen shorts in quick succession results in so many visual images that they tend to blur together by the end of the show. An intermission which breaks the program into two halves helps somewhat and the atmosphere at the Off-the-Wall theater (which is also a coffee house and photo gallery) is low-keyed and convivial. Until short subjects become a regular part of movie theater programming, Off-the-Wall's approach is the most rewarding, if exhausting, way to see these...
...period of seemingly clear-cut divisions, we saw little need for an explicit definition of the national interest. We saw economic problems around the world of the kind we had solved successfully in our own country, and sought to overwhelm them with the weight of resources, assuming that economic progress automatically led to political stability. In short, without making a conscious design to do so, we were trying to shape the world to our design...
Freund then spoke of Brandeis, for whom he clerked after graduating from the Law School in 1932. Brandeis was a "moralist," Freund said, who "wrote opinions not to pierce the mind, but to instruct and overwhelm" with their weight...
...latter is Samuel P. Huntington, who justified the practice of "forced-draft urbanization" in Vietnam. In the July 1968 issue of Foreign Affairs, Huntington explained that the National Liberation Front held the "good Maoist expectation that by winning the support of the rural population it could eventually isolate and overwhelm the cities," and that the NLF would "remain a powerful and effective force which cannot be dislodged from its constituency so long as its constituency exists." But the guerillas would be unable to resist the "modernizing instruments of bombs and artillery" which are "largely, if not exclusively [responsible...