Word: prevails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such circumstances. East Germans had the prudent alternatives of flight or putting up with it. The uncertain factor was whether, as the tension over Berlin increased, prudence would prevail...
Scolded smartly by Nasser's United Arab Republic for exploding "a foolish smoke bomb," even Kassem started acting as if his invasion threat had been a desert mirage. "Peaceful means," he announced blandly in Baghdad, "will prevail over tanks and planes." Hopping into his bulletproof Russian Zim limousine, Kassem made a jovial, half-hour appearance at U.S. Ambassador John Jernegan's Independence Day reception, where he was escorted inside by ten U.S. marines and ten of his own Czech-armed bodyguards. Seemingly oblivious of his scathing attacks on "imperialist" Britain, Kassem deadpanned: "Our relations with Britain are stronger...
...padded cells." But he slogged stubbornly on to audiences with two dictators: Salazar of Portugal and Franco of Spain. The Task Force was impressed by both men. "Today Spain and Portugal have comparatively flourishing economies," wrote Hearst. "You can walk the clean streets safely at night. Peace and prosperity prevail. And both countries are solidly in the ranks of the West. If that is the result of dictatorship, I say make the most...
...most top fine artists would work haughtily with a refuse any commercial offer or to paint any exhortatory message in it; in Poland, an easier ethic and a powerful state need for propaganda prevail. Thus the common poster, which may proclaim no loftier message than the ordinary American billboard, may bear the signature of a top artist. On display last week in the West German city of Essen were 124 posters done between 1951 and 1959 in Poland. The show has traveled all over West Germany, convincing the Germans that in this art form Poland stands as high...
History records interventions that aided the cause of liberty-the U.S. intervention in Greece in the late 1940s, for example, when a U.S. military mission under General James Van Fleet furnished training and planning that enabled the loyalists to prevail in the civil war against Communist guerrillas. History also records instances where hindsight saw nonintervention to have been wrong-headed and wrong-hearted-the West's paralysis when Hitler seized Austria, the U.S.'s failure to intervene forcefully enough in China after World War II. Last week, with the Geneva conference on Laos getting started (see THE WORLD...