Word: staking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...South Viet Nam is a deadly game of hide-and-seek-with the fate of Southeast Asia at stake. It is a game that the U.S. is grimly determined...
...recent three-hour interview with Look Publisher Gardner Cowles showed that the Soviet Premier has finally abandoned his insistence on a summit meeting in the near future, now agrees with President Kennedy that a conference of heads of state would probably prove "sterile" unless the issues at stake were negotiated in advance by their foreign ministers...
...long run, Faculty opinion determines whether junior members are willing to stake their academic future on their University, or whether they go elsewhere for jobs. As the Faculty's attitudes spread to the academic community outside the university, it becomes correspondingly easier or harder to recruit scholars to posts within the university. When junior Faculty depart for other scenes, and when it becomes more difficult to fill senior positions, a university is in trouble...
...speed through the Paris square and disappears. Her passage stirs eddies of emotion. For a traffic policeman boredom dissipates briefly; he lusts sharply and happily. A woman sneers contemptuously; obviously the girl is a slut, because quite apparently she is wearing no brassiere. A plainclothes detective on a stake-out forgets his ambush to gawk; an aging homosexual glances at the girl in envy; a bookstore owner obsessed with the past history of this quarter of Paris barely sees the girl as she passes before his eyes. And a novelist named Carnejoux, watching the square from his balcony, is excited...
...that is not all they will miss; unaccountably lacking in The Spy Who Loved Me are the High-Stake Gambling Scene, the Meal-Ordering Scene, the Torture Scene, the battleship-grey Bentley, and Blades Club...