Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last week, on the eve of another Assembly meeting, the French brought forth a draft version of their long-promised "framework law" to settle Algeria's future. Totally unacceptable, the Arabs called it, and in fact the law was something of a mouse-small, grey, and of indeterminate shape. But so deep run the divisions within Premier Maurice Bourges-Maunoury's government that the ministers themselves could not agree between two proposals before them, and in the final draft left all points of difference vague and unresolved. Said one French Deputy: "We cannot make war because it would...
...Communist aggression by "internal subversion, intervention by 'volunteers,' domination through political and psychological warfare," U.S. doctrine has no flexible alternative between total war and peaceful inaction, because it is geared to "total" concepts. Neither psychologically nor militarily has the U.S. been willing to take risks or properly shape its power to battle less than total threats. Even when it enjoyed A-bomb monopoly, the U.S. failed to translate "our military superiority into a political advantage" over the Soviet bloc. Result: Communism took over in China and Czechoslovakia, won control of North Korea and North Viet Nam, is still...
...long time." But the Post cancellation was a surprise. After a Satevepost writer had interviewed Steeves for three weeks and led him back along his High Sierra trail, the Post's writer found certain "discrepancies" in his story; e.g., his boots seemed to be in remarkably good shape; Steeves at first sturdily showed no knowledge of a small forest fire discovered in the area where he says he camped, later said that he started the fire...
...self-examining essay in which the continent's odd geography, zoology and climate serve as a metaphor for White's real theme-the uncharted journey into the dry, unblazed interior of the Australian mind. Landscape is the protagonist. It is said of one character: "His failures took shape, but in flowers and mountains." Another character speaks of "the grey of mediocrity" (the color of the Australian earth and foliage) and the "blue of frustration" (the color of the rainless skies), and these comprise the palette on which White works out his composition...
...summer, and they resume their way of life-shearing their sheep, weaving cloth and dazzling-colored rugs. Ghazan knows that this summer idyl cannot last and that by fall he must lead his tribe back to its winter grazing grounds, to face the 20th century in the shape of the modern Persian army. Then, to fight or not to fight, that is the question to which Ghazan desperately seeks an answer...