Word: reliant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...llls, now may be forced to buy more of the U.S.-made fighters as substitutes for its own. As De Gaulle is only too well aware, that would strengthen one of his pet arguments for keeping Britain out of the Common Market: that Britain is overly reliant for its defense needs...
...need a Great Society, we need a self-reliant society," and Medicare erodes that self-reliance, the president-elect of the American Medical Association told a Kirkland House audience last night...
...came to forming a national compact, none of the 13 colonies felt themselves provinces within the new nation. Each state joined the union as an act of consent, not of compulsion, and each, as the tide of nationhood moved westward, came to think of itself as more self-reliant than its brothers to the East...
...pressed in Peking is a notion based on the same fear of the diabolical cleverness of Communists which we used to direct to Moscow. Not only does the strategy require the existence of a local political situation favorable to its success. It requires the existence of a self-reliant, capable, indigenous leadership willing to adopt and adapt it to local condition...
...Quincy regime. Henry Thoreau, obviously, was scarcely one to test the college ordinance demanding "no grouping in the Yard", tempting as the Harvard faculty had made the proposition by defining a group as "two students and the pump." Thoreau's disobedience was conducted in a more civil and self-reliant manner...