Word: strength
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newest tactic to shake the free world was to give the West six months to make Berlin "a free city," disengaged from the cold war and demilitarized in the heart of Communist East Germany. It brought predictable cries from critics of the Western allies' basic positions-of-strength foreign policy that it was time to think through "flexible," "positive" solutions for the whole of divided Germany. Yet Khrushchev's belligerence was convincing evidence-particularly to West Germany-that the policy of making West Berlin a showcase of prosperous freedom was successful...
...economic contest between systems. "I am sure that all of us would be delighted to accept the challenge. In such a contest no one could really lose . . . We need to apply in this field the same determination, willingness, and cooperation which enabled us to build the military strength which deters aggression today...
...Vermeersch, was beaten by a Gaullist in one of Paris' "reddest" districts; so, too, was tubby Jacques Duclos, the party's No. 2 man and parliamentary leader. Of the 150 seats won in 1956, the Communists held on to only ten. This hardly reflected their true voting strength as France's second largest party, but then, the old system of proportional representation had given them seats beyond their strength...
Tito, in a torrent of aggrievement, wondered: "Why such fierce attacks from the Chinese? Do they perhaps want to show their monolithic character and the strength of their 600 million by making Yugoslavia, at their mere shout, disappear as if it never existed?" Tito guessed that there was a quite different reason for the attacks, "but they dare not say this...
...Allen thinks most of the particles come from the sun, shot out by eruptions and trapped by the earth's magnetic field. The strength of the radiation belt is probably variable, like the amount of water in a leaky bucket that is filled at irregular intervals. When the sun is quiet, the particles in the belt gradually leak down to the atmosphere and disappear perhaps causing the aurora. The belt grows weaker and weaker until a new transfusion of particles from the sun makes it strong again...