Word: poses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the explosion of two atomic devices in Red China, McNamara told a House Armed Services Subcommittee, Peking will not pose a nuclear threat to the U.S. until some time after 1975. Even then, he said, its small but "highly visible" force of ballistic missiles will be chiefly a political weapon, "designed to undermine our military prestige and the credibility of any guarantee which we might offer to friendly countries." To counter even this limited threat, McNamara said that the U.S. could set up a "light" anti-missile missile system-as opposed to the "heavy" system that would be necessary...
...dusty studio window and bare light bulbs, heated by a potbellied stove, was strewn with butts of cigarettes that he chimneyed at the rate of three or four packs a day. Its grimy floor was for Giacometti a battlefield. He once made a model sit in the same pose for years in a vain attempt to capture her likeness. He traveled little except for trips to Stampa, Switzerland, at Christmas and New Year...
...loyalties be preserved by a government which changes its procedures at will, in the interest of self-government? And would not constitutional safeguards of minority rights--the first eight amendments--be rendered meaningless by strict adherence to self-government by "the living?" Clearly, reapportionment and the other examples given pose no problems. But what I do question is the dogmatic way in which Frank constructs the theoretical foundation for his more limited contentions regarding reapportionment...
...With his incredible ability to concentrate," McCulloch reported, "the general would patiently break off to read and answer an urgent cable from Saigon, field a question from one of the children, or take a call from Honolulu-based CINCPAC, and then not only resume his pose but take up my question precisely where he had left it. Each of the four formal sessions ran far past the scheduled hour and a half-mostly, I think, because everyone involved enjoyed it. I frequently became so fascinated with the magic Berks worked so swiftly with his clay that I left questions hanging...
Afterwards, the couple dutifully went downstairs to pose for waiting photographers. "Hey, Charlotte, give us a smile!" cried a photographer. "It's Anne," she said. Gianni looked down his Roman nose. "That was two weeks ago," he said. Then both headed back upstairs to the 125-guest reception; after that they flew off to honeymoon in a rented house in Acapulco for two weeks. "Well," said Daddy, "it all worked...