Word: processes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fulbright began the debate by downplaying his committee's move, arguing that since the CIA "plays a major role in the foreign policy decision-making process," it was only reasonable that the Foreign Relations Committee should be interested in it. A broadened-and by implication more alert-watchdog group, he claimed, would be but a "small step in the Senate's formal recognition of its duty to exercise a more comprehensive oversight of U.S. intelligence activities...
Grass & Insecticide. To Westerners, the process sometimes seems as brutal as it is effective. Suspects are encouraged to talk by a rifle fired just past the ear from behind while they are sitting on the edge of an open grave, or by a swift, cheekbone-shattering flick of a Korean's bare hand. (Every Korean soldier from Commanding General Chae Myung Shin on down practices for 30 minutes each day tae kwon do, the Korean version of karate.) Once, when the mutilated body of a Korean soldier was found in a Viet Cong-sympathizing village, the Koreans tracked down...
...pool of resources capable of meeting the huge needs of technology. While pioneering the technological revolution, on the other hand, the U.S. was not a bit shy about using techniques developed elsewhere, from France's pasteurization to Austria's basic oxygen process for steel. The British invented the jet engine -but U.S. jets practically monopolize the world's long-range routes today. The U.S. opened its arms to European scientists, who gave it, among other things, The Bomb...
...billion in aid, food and clothes and massive Marshall Plan reconstruction loans. The presence of hundreds of thousands of obviously prosperous, obviously confident American soldiers in Germany alone unconsciously created an image that was far more lasting and effective than the conscious efforts of the Nazi re-education process. Since the war, of course, wave upon wave of American tourists and students have further entrenched American attitudes and products in Europe, though in the doing they have sometimes marred the American image. And almost everywhere there have been U.S. businessmen eager to cash in on the aspirations of others...
...denominator of a culture is its rhythms, from the way the telephone jangles to the cycle of the seasons, and those rhythms are resistant to most change. Italian life is still essentially baroque beneath all the surface trappings. Japan, for all its material modernization, remains quintessential Japanese in its process of thinking, its personal relations, its social organization. Moreover, though technological change can and does profoundly affect societies, modernization is mostly confined to the big cities, particularly in Asia, Africa and Latin America, where the heartlands remain relatively untouched by progress. Even in the cities, there is a distinct time...