Word: passional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fear of You." NATO, in fact, became his passion. So great was his distrust of Russia's postwar ambitions that in 1948 he bluntly told Andrei Vishinsky that Belgium's foreign policy was based on fear: "Fear of you, fear of your government, fear of your policy." NATO, he decided, was Western Europe's only chance. Spaak saw the Atlantic Alliance as much more than military: "NATO must also be the political center of the West. It serves no purpose to make a purely military alliance if we have not learned to live together in peace...
...although they are the two best decathlon men in history. A kind of track meet in miniature, the decathlon is the most searching test of athletic skill and endurance yet devised. But except in Olympic years when it becomes the symbol of the original Greek games, it arouses little passion in the U.S. There won't be another Olympics until 1968; and so in the meantime, Toomey and Hodge have been slogging along, paying their own way to the few track meets in which the decathlon is held, rarely getting a mention in the press. "We feel like tramps...
...walk. Yet the principal appeal of the practice may come as a shock to Westerners. Levy states flatly that footbinding survived, despite its anatomical and emotional horrors, because the Chinese for more than a thousand years were a nation of foot fetishists who adored the pedicule with a peculiar passion...
Fast Resuffle. The passion for pilgrimage has made the airlines the fastest-growing industry in the U.S., expanding by an average 14% a year since 1950, as against 8.4% for the runner-up, electric utilities. The pell-mell pace is still accelerating: this year U.S. airlines plan to take delivery of 287 new jet and turbo-prop planes worth almost $1.5 billion, nearly twice as much as they spent on equipment in 1965. With that outlay, the industry will add as much seat-mile capacity as it had altogether in 1950. The airlines are already the nation...
...herself: "I charm children. I have a passion for excellence. I am involved with the whole world...