Word: staking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...America in the process of launching into a second revolution," says Cartier, "a peaceful revolution brought about with increasing worker ownership of capital, the triumph of free enterprise. Look at America today. She decreases foreign aid and intensifies the offensive in Viet Nam. She is burned at the stake in the United Nations. She hardly asks the advice of anyone any more. Yet her prestige has perhaps never been greater...
...aggressive ones -- I mean, why take self-determination from the poor Tibetians?...I understand that 60% of the Vietnamese land is still owned by the old landlords. Really! Land reform ought to be put through at once. We have to give the peasant a stake in his own country -- something to fight for...I think the Mekong power scheme is terribly exciting. It's one of the world's great power sources and the whole area could benefit from it. We should pop in a UN defense now to protect the scheme." As for American policy, she maintained that there...
Both parties will always be racked with internal rumbles. Unlike the Democrats, though, the G.O.P. too often lacks the implicit fail-safe agreement to douse all feuds when elections are at stake...
...observed that "the masses feel that France's independence is at stake and that without De Gaulle, France would have to follow the American line...
...days before Christmas, the nation's bookies have made one of their rare catastrophic errors on today's Ivy point spreads. Yale has been installed a 13-point favorite over Penn, which is patently ridiculous. Our Ivy prognostications this season have been 76 per cent correct, and we will stake our life savings that Yale doesn't win by more than one touchdown...