Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which wants to resume full sovereignty (it may soon get a bigger role in the island's administration). Though Japan spends only 1.4% of its national income on defense and relies on the U.S. for its protection, U.S. airbases and 45,000 servicemen (fewest since the occupation) inevitably stir resentment in the world's most densely populated country. U.S. resumption of nuclear tests in the atmosphere would provoke violent reaction. But by far the biggest problem for Japan, the world's second biggest market for U.S. goods, is the Administration's evident intention to raise tariffs...
...with East Germany; Adenauer demurred, on the ground that any further relationship would approach de facto recognition of the Ulbricht regime. The two disagreed on the need for closer ties between West Berlin and West Germany; Kennedy argued that any further efforts to tie the city to Bonn might stir the Soviets into fresh reprisals. As gently as he could, Kennedy suggested that Adenauer should start to groom a successor; Adenauer merely promised to think the matter over...
Among the techniques: >A nuclear bomb could be loaded on a submarine or barge and planted on the ocean bottom near the coast of a target country. Exploded under two miles of water (at the aggressor's will and from great distance), a 20,000-megaton bomb would stir up a wave whose crest would still be 100 feet high after it had traveled 200 miles. It would wash most coastlines bare and ride far inland...
...that generally attack by producing systemic poisons rather than by invading the body's cells. Antibiotics have wiped out or brought under control virtually all the major bacterial diseases: tuberculosis, some forms of pneumonia, diphtheria, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, gonorrhea, syphilis and most of the other illnesses that stir memories of Paul de Kruif's heroic Microbe Hunters...
...start removing from power the 562 maharajahs who had ruled their states under benevolent English eyes. Pensioned off with handsome privy purses, some of the maharajahs retired to dream of past glories. But about 20 have entered the diplomatic service; another 40 are in politics. None has created the stir caused by the Maharani of Jaipur, who chose to join the new and growing Swatantra Party, a right-wing group that attacks the "socialism" of Nehru's Congress Party and calls for the kind of individualism sought in the U.S. by Dwight Eisenhower. The party's venerable founder...