Word: sap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Colonel Blimp's direst argument against joining the Common Market is that effete Continental customs will sap the British Way of Life. "Even before her entry," the Paris daily Le Monde observed last week, "Britain is throwing off certain of the original traits to which she has always been so attached. She speaks of adopting the metric system. Automobiles there now have bright colors; high buildings are going up in the middle of London, and worthy gentlemen no longer fear to walk about bareheaded." However, pointed out Le Monde: "The osmosis is not all in one direction. The whole...
This quartet naturally demanded a form of its own; for categorizing these feelings as movements would sap their strength and question what such emotions really have to do with one another. The two movements present a succession of moods, often with sudden changes. One passage superimposes a subdued counterpoint in the violins over coarse grindings from the other pair and thereby stresses each feeling all the more. (It is interesting that Elliot Carter did the same in his first quartet--here, if you demand it, is a Zeitgeist.) But unlike Carter and Moevs, Layton does not set slow, soft melodies...
Beyond the diseased oak, 10,000 sap-green trees...
...long as Communism deals in subversion, aggression and domination, the relations between East and West, must be considered principally in the context of power." It is just such a cold assessment of power that led Home to favor backing down on Laos-he calculates that a war there would sap the West and leave it ill-prepared to meet a crisis in Europe...
Obviously fearful that the Evian talks might sap the ardor of F.L.N. combat forces, Abbas last week broadcast a warning to Moslems in Algeria: "Negotiation is not peace. Everyone must realize that the colonialist forces have not disarmed, and that negotiations may be long and difficult." How long and difficult they might prove was suggested by Louis Joxe's rental of a hillside chalet outside Evian. He signed a lease for a month-with an option to renew indefinitely...