Word: path
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There were no Ibos among them. Fearing death at the hands of the federals, they had chosen to flee north in the path of the advance and now were gathering, some 5,000,000 to 6,000,000 strong, in the roughly 60-mi. by 40-mi. oblong noose into which Biafra has shrunk. The roads are heavily mined, often forcing federal soldiers to take to the thick roadside bush. There they use their submachine guns as deadly scythes, pouring thousands of rounds into the thickets and the few roadside huts they come upon. As in any war, some civilians...
...impressed by Zond's flight, calling it "the most important demonstration of total space capacity up to now by any nation." British Astronomer Sir Bernard Lovell, who predicts Russian probes almost as well as he tracks them, was certain that cosmonauts would soon follow in Zond's path. "Why else would they have transmitted the human voice that we recorded?" he asked. But the chief of the National Aeronautics and Space Council, Edward C. Welch, expressed confidence that the U.S. was still ahead in the lunar race...
Helping poorer nations who need help most, admitted McNamara, involves risks. But he emphatically turned down the notion "that the utter avoidance of risks is the path of prudence or wisdom." The bank's governors will undoubtedly agree; they have little choice, if McNamara's first six months as president are any indication. The former Defense Secretary is more available to aides than his predecessors but becomes impatient if they are fuddy-duddy. He stresses the organization's role as a development agency. "If I had wanted to join a bank, I'd have done...
They also have agreed upon a strategy for their inevitable confrontation with the military authorities. First, the scouts stationed at the doors will alert the people inside, who will take up positions sitting in the aisles and obstruct the path of the authorities. Meanwhile, eight hand-picked sactuary occupants will link arms in a circle around Kroll, creating a final barrier to be broken before Kroll can be taken into custody...
Supak feels that this "trifurcation" of self leaves one worse than useless and he urges for a start, a complete rejection of the "path of least resistance" which leads one into what he terms a hopeless compromise that destroy one's psychic well-being as its inherent contradictions emerge. He acknowledges the temptation to stay "in" since "you not only have to give up less; you won't be beat up, rejected by your parents and their friends...