Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...see any possibility. That is, unless the Americans withdraw all troops, refuse to furnish us ammunition and weapons, and cease altogether helping us fight the Communists. Then we could be overthrown by the Communists...
...see anything we can do to get negotiations moving? Some people mention de facto ceasefire...
...they are also open to a variety of interpretations. When he talks about "one standard for everybody" in today's context, it can sound like an argument against what some whites consider to be preferential treatment for Negroes. When he talks about abuses of the welfare system, most whites see black and brown, which is not completely unjustified...
...tenth anniversary, China seemed well on its way to becoming a world power. Now that prospect is remote. To be sure, the indexes of improvement over 1949 are impressive (see chart opposite). China has emerged as a formidable Asian power, a member of the nuclear club,* and an ideological challenger of the Soviet Union. But it also remains economically backward, militarily weak, politically divided and alienated from much of the world...
...storm through it. Famous prima donnas long to play at being beautiful and abandoned in it. The Metropolitan Opera has hinted at doing it for decades, but when the New York City Opera presented it last week, it was the first time that New Yorkers were able to see the opera performed with full stage trappings in 43 years...