Word: scoped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lowly Salesman. For both the 1964 and 1968 Democratic national conventions, L.B.J. ordered the FBI to set up a special squad to be used by him in various ways. "The cover would be that it was a security squad against militants," wrote Sullivan. "Nothing of this scope had ever been done before or since to my memory...
...which diverted North Vietnamese troops and thus gave South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu a chance to consolidate his military and political position. Instead of keeping Cambodia nonCommunist, the American incursion helped catalyze the minuscule pro-Communist Khmer Rouge guerrillas into a movement of na tional scope. It pushed Prince Norodom Sihanouk, a dedicated neutralist who was overthrown as Cambodia's ruler in spring 1970, reluctantly into the hands of Hanoi and Peking...
...echoed today by many science-fiction writers, Wells stated that the novel was the only medium through which the great questions of social change could be discussed. Fiction would have to yield to his procrustean devices. "Before we are done," he said, "we will have all life within the scope of the novel...
...fruit of almost ten years' negotiation between the Chinese and French governments, begun by ex-Culture Minister André Malraux and finished in detail by a group of orientalists headed by Vadime Elisseeff, chief curator of the Musée Cernuschi in Paris. Encyclopedic in scope-the objects on display range from rudimentary quartz and flint scrapers used by Peking Man in 500,000 B.C. to the exquisite porcelains and silver toilet articles of the Yuan dynasty, which ended in A.D. 1368-it is intelligently mounted, with unobtrusive panels of photos, documents and information: an ideal teaching show...
...hearings are exposing a band of men who can be identified, charged and convicted for their criminal destruction of the Constitution. The face riots of the past were often much broader in their scope. They indicted the entire white population and plunged a portion of it into spasms of guilt, while another portion merely reacted, true to nature, with further violence and deeper prejudice...