Word: sole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...asked for Russian aid in the first place, he could stop it when he pleased. But he obviously wanted to be back on top in Laos before he gave peacemaking a try. And he was waiting for the big powers to put him there. "Kennedy is my sole hope," he said. He might have added Nikita Khrushchev. Either way, his hope seemed fairly well founded...
...Congo received its independence are entirely misleading. In addition to 30 university graduates, people with the equivalent of an American M.A. or Ph.D. degree, there were more than 1,000 enrolled Congolese college students in Belgium and the Congo. Africa's only two full-fledged universities and Africa's sole nuclear reactor are in the Congo. Add to that more than 17,000 men and women studying to be teachers, some 20,000 students in technical schools, and almost 18,000 in high school and junior college. The total figures for those in primary school was more than...
Stevenson called the U.N. "mankind's sole common instrument of politics," and his warning to the Russians was even blunter. "Africa is the Balkans of today," said Stevenson. "Any outside power seeking to manipulate its griefs and searchings and first fumbling efforts to stand alone risks bringing down on Africa and on the world the dread possibility of nuclear destruction." Stevenson then reminded the Russians of a law of history "more profound, more inescapable than the laws dreamed up by Marx and Lenin: war follows when new empires thrust into collapsing ruins of the old. So stay your ambitions...
...with the inspired frankness that disarms so many. He told Bourguiba that Algerian independence was inevitable. Far from opposing Algerian aspirations, De Gaulle would do everything in his power to satisfy them. Instead of cutting off free Algeria "without a sou," France would continue economic aid. France's sole desire, said De Gaulle, was to help Algeria overcome poverty and forget the bitter past...
Tonight the basketball team will play its final game of the season, meeting Yale at the LAB at 8:15 p.m. With a 3-10 record, the Crimson must win to avoid the ignominy of finishing in sole possession of last place. Columbia has already ended with a 4-10 mark...