Word: stressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wills it), malesh (it does not matter), and bukra (tomorrow). Above all, what they have in common is a language. "An Arab is anyone whose mother tongue is Arabic," says Gamal Abdel Nasser. It is not only the chief bond, but a chief source of trouble. Its whole stress is on rhetoric and resonance, not meaning and content. How poetically an Arab speaks is far more important than what he says. "In Arabic," asserts one specialist, "the medium squared is the message...
Nasser: By God, I say that I will make an announcement and you will make an announcement and we will see to it that the Syrians will make an announcement that American and British airplanes are taking part against us from aircraft carriers. We will stress the matter, and we will drive the point home...
Four Possibles. The stress on the nuts and bolts is neither by chance nor, of late, altogether by choice. So regularly and effectively have U.S. pilots pounded Ho's fledgling industries in the nation's heartland (see map) that very few major targets remain intact. U.S. policy has so far strictly proscribed the bombing of Haiphong harbor, the Red River dikes, and the government's civilian and military headquarters in Hanoi. Of the permissible targets, only four major ones are still untouched: the three airfields of Phuc Yen, Gia Lam and Cat Bi, and the large...
...President, in the past there has been a great stress on limited objectives in Viet Nam. Now, many people seem to have the opinion that you have changed it. A.: I would, hem, agree with the first statement...
Excessive zeal and information hastily gathered under the stress of bias should not be substitute for the careful consideration of facts or for their interpretation and understanding...