Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thinly populated region where China's Sinkiang region and Soviet Kazakhstan meet, Russian border guards and Chinese militia shattered the early morning stillness with grenades and submachine guns. The Soviets apparently got the better of the battle, but the question of who won seemed relatively unimportant. Far more serious was the question: How many such pitched battles can take place before the two giants stumble into...
Since then, the situation has grown increasingly serious. Soviet radio stations beam programs into Sinkiang exhorting the minority groups to rise up in a war of liberation against the Maoists. The Chinese, badly outgunned along the entire Sino-Soviet border, are at a special disadvantage in Sinkiang. Against some 150,000 to 200,000 troops across the Soviet border the Chinese have only 85,000 to 100,000. The Soviet troops, moreover, are backed up by medium-range missiles...
...forces were to strike simultaneously? With the Arab armies still confined behind such antitank obstacles as the Suez Canal and the Jordan River, and the Palestinian guerrilla drive slowed by, bombing and tight border patrols, air strikes have become virtually the only way for the Arabs to attempt serious blows at Israel. Says Jordan's King Hussein: "We can no longer allow the enemy a free hand in our skies...
Before then, Harry would have had his headline-war or Armageddon notwithstanding. In Romy's heyday, foreign affairs meant DIPLOMAT FOUND IN LOVE NEST! In recent years, however, Chicago newspapers have expanded their serious coverage of national and international news; now they tend to bury all but the most sensational crime stories in the back pages or, more often, the wastebasket. "Police-beat news," explains one Daily News rewrite man, "is what runs on a dull...
This cozy quality, alas, has never done the stomach-Steinway much good with serious classical musicians. Its tone, they say, is too wheezily domineering for accompaniment and too monotonous for anything else...