Word: shatter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sundering the Bloc. Práce was most likely correct. Any Soviet attack on Czechoslovakia à la Hungary 1956 would have horrendous repercussions for the Kremlin's foreign policy. It would shatter the carefully cultivated détente Russia has been building with Western Europe. It would sunder the Communist bloc, nearly all of whose members have embraced "polycentrism" as the correct philosophy for relations between Communist countries and Russia. It would make impossible the conference of Communist parties that Russia hopes to convene this year. Nor would it be a military Cakewalk. Since Russian troops left...
Secrets. It is the puzzling, impure nature of popular mechanized culture that underlies the author's concern. His harshest criticism of Disney is that the entertainment machine he set in motion "was designed to shatter the two most valuable things about childhood-its secrets and its silences-thus forcing everyone to share the same formative dreams." That is probably an exaggeration, suggesting that, like Disney himself, Schickel romanticizes the. good old days, and sentimentalizes the nature of childhood as well. Schickel argues that Disney could not have been an artist because his simplified view of reality narrowed rather than...
First, in most cases, came the teenagers, already milling on the crowded curbs. Once windows began to shatter and the bolder youngsters reached through the shards to pluck out plunder, the party was on. Next came the followers, still mostly teen-agers and men in their twenties. New York City's deputy police commissioner Jacques Nevard estimated that 80% of his area's looters were under 21, fully half 16 or under...
...Communists took crippling losses in the 40,000 of their soldiers killed during the Tet campaign and the 15,000 chewed up during their disastrous siege of the U.S. Marine base at Khe Sanh (see box). The Tet onslaughts failed to topple Thieu's government, failed to shatter ARVN, and, in fact, left it with more confidence than it had had before. The pacification program in the countryside turns out not to have been hit so hard as at first suspected: out of the 629 pre-Tet Revolutionary Development teams, 545 are back in the field, 449 of those...
Pearson warned that lack of action would eventually shatter the country. In this atmosphere of urgency, the premiers proceeded to adopt more than two-thirds of his proposals. They decided to work as a committee over the next few years to draw up changes in Canada's century-old constitution, including guarantees of linguistic and cultural equality for the French Canadian minority. Endorsing the broad reforms recommended by a Royal Commission, they vowed to break down Quebec's "ghetto complex" by setting up French as an official language along with English wherever large communities of French Canadians...