Word: preception
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...Rusk for his description, made during a Madrid stopover, of Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco as "an ally of the U.S. in the fight against Communist aggression.'' Said the telegram: "That a member of this Administration could praise a Fascist tyrant who has violated every basic precept of freedom and decency is indefensible just as General Franco is indefensible...
That defense is based upon the sound precept that the U.S. must have more military flexibility than it has had in recent years. The U.S. will continue to rely basically on the potential for massive nuclear retaliation, but it will also attempt to increase the capacity for fighting so-called "limited" or "conventional" wars, which the Communists have become so adept at pushing...
...Turkish Historian Sead-dedin wrote of the capture of Constantinople by Mohammed in 1453: "Having received permission to loot, the soldiers thronged into the city with joyous hearts, and there, seizing the possessors and their families, they made the wretched unbelievers weep. They acted in accordance with the precept, 'slaughter their aged and capture their youth...
...fiction's post-Socratic theorems: Find Thyself and Express Thyself. From Madison Avenue to Greenwich Village, from suburbia to Sunset Boulevard, the heroes of unnumbered novels are digging for their treasured psyches. In most instances, there is no treasure worth unearthing, all of which leads to another popular precept: Pity Thyself...
Deliberately turning his back on his supporters, Frondizi refused to legalize the Peronistas as a political party, outlawed the Communists, clamped down on the Castroites. He violated every nationalistic precept by dealing with foreign oil companies to develop Argentina's state-owned oilfields, a task the oilmen proceeded to work at so diligently that Argentina expects to turn from an importer to an exporter of oil this year. He let foreign power companies expand Argentine electric power production, threw open the nation's iron-ore beds to overseas investors...