Word: staking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...control? Optimists can point out that the Peking challenge to Moscow is not likely to end soon, because it rests deeply in the economic and even racial differences between the two countries. At the very heart of the conflict is the fact that Russia today has more of a stake in the good life than in world revolution...
...June, President Kennedy called representatives of the two sides to the White House and warned that "the whole future of free collective bargaining" was at stake. Kennedy asked the management men to agree to another postponement of the deadline for putting the new rules into effect. Reluctantly, the railroads shifted from June 18 to 12:01 a.m. July...
Every plotter does his part. To hide the sound of a tunnel being chipped through the concrete floor of a bunkhouse washroom, the clink of the pick is synchronized with the banging of the hammer innocently driving a horseshoe-pitching stake outside. Wardrobes of German clothes are run up from blankets and uniforms dyed in coffee or ink; whole wallets full of identity papers are forged; money, emergency rations, maps are scrounged. The tunnel is a marvel of Swiss Family Robinson ingenuity, with electric lights, a little subway running on wooden tracks, a bellows-operated ventilation system...
...When Gautama Buddha's body was cremated, tradition has it, some parts of it failed to burn. Joan of Arc's heart is said to have survived her burning at the stake and been thrown into the Seine. When Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned off Italy in 1822, three literary friends -Lord Byron, Edward John Trelawny and Leigh Hunt-cremated the corpse on a pyre of driftwood. The job almost done, Trelawny suddenly thrust in his arm and snatched out the heart, which, although fiery hot, was strangely unconsumed. In Oscar Wilde's fairy tale, The Happy Prince...
...crux of the Chinese dispute with Russia remained Moscow's propaganda line of peaceful coexistence with the West. This policy, said Peking scornfully, was plucked out of "some mystical book from Heaven"; moreover, those who dare to disagree are treated "as heretics deserving to be burned at the stake. How can the Chinese Communists agree? They cannot. It is impossible...