Word: quos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...done, that dreams could be embodied in action, that a better life could be achieved with effort and ingenuity. The American style reflects a questing spirit, a desire for change and investigation, an irreverence for authority that has lasted since 1776, a built-in dissatisfaction with the status quo. The American system is a constant seeking of practical means to an end. "Americans," says French Humorist Pierre Da-ninos, "adapted naturally to the modern environment. They seem to be born into this age, born to make long-distance calls, hop international flights or act in films...
...Moscow, De Gaulle met again with Brezhnev and Kosygin to prepare a 2,000-word "declaration of intent." Both sides held firm to their positions on German reunification, De Gaulle refusing to agree to East German recognition and the Russians remaining rigid in their support of the European status quo. Both sides concurred in their earlier demands for an end to all foreign intervention in Viet Nam, and agreed to work toward improving "a climate of détente between East and West." To that end, France and Russia will engage in "regular consultations"-period unspecified-and install a symbolic...
...baggage) was the key question of a Soviet withdrawal of forces from East Germany. De Gaulle clearly would like to see such a first step toward the dissolution of that obstacle to a European settlement, and the U.S. has indicated that it would consider a quid pro quo pullback of its own. The matter may very well be on the agenda of the Warsaw Pact powers when they meet this week in the Rumanian capital of Bucharest. If so, the seeds of cold war disengagement that Charles de Gaulle planted along his triumphal 6,200-mile march through Russia...
Many Republicans feel that the state GOP has begun to develop a positive identify during the past two years. The efforts of Volpe and Richardson and Brooke have taught the voters, they claim, to think of Republicans as more than reformers and seat-warmers who preserve the status quo between Democratic administrations...
Asians are villagers, and the village always bowed before the procession of imperial powers as before natural forces -taxed, conscripted, pillaged but holding fast to the status quo by totem and taboo. Karl Marx sneered at "these idyllic village communities" as stagnant and "subjugating man to external circumstances...