Word: path
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...students linger after the lectures to ask polite questions. There is a new respect for the rights of others. At Harvard, which protested strongly 22 months ago against ROTC, a Marine Corps recruiter recently turned up on campus. When a small band of radicals tried to block the path to his office, some 40 self-appointed marshals quickly cleared...
...reformist possibilities were gradually destroyed by corruption and ineptitude and by the bitter power struggle with the emerging Communist Party, which challenged the existence of Chiang Kai-shek's regime. Many in Chiang's Kuomintang Party were attempting to push China toward modernization and industrialization, the path taken by Japan the century before. Many others seemed content to take what they could from a peasantry long accustomed to abuse. Chiang's tragedy, according to Tuchman, was that he was incapable of making a decisive break with the past...
...mind of the Wasp bears more resemblance to the laser than the mind of any other ethnic group," said Mailer. "To wit, he can project himself 'extraordinary distances through a narrow path. He's disciplined, stoical, able to become the instrument of his own will, has extraordinary boldness and daring together with a resolute lack of imagination. He's profoundly nihilistic. And this nihilism found its perfect expression in the odyssey to the moon-because we went there without knowing why we went...
Yugoslavia was the first East European nation to defy Russia. It was a considerable event. Until Josip Broz Tito rebelled in 1948, Joseph Stalin seemed invincible in the Communist world. The Yugoslavian assertion of independence showed that there could be more than one path for Communists: it also set an example that led to the whole concept of a neutral Third World. Today all that is taken for granted. But at the time the Yugoslav struggle was a very close thing. Just how close is dramatically described by Historian Vladimir Dedijer, who lived through the ordeal as one of Marshal...
...floral path to prosperity has been thick with thorns. In Little Rock, one 17-year-old girl was busted for blocking a street. Some florists near Dallas, irked that Scott and Campbell were undercutting them by selling carnations at $2.50 a dozen, threatened to boycott merchants who allowed flower children to operate in front of their stores...