Word: subverter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...offer. But Thompson also had a warning. President Kennedy wanted to make it perfectly clear that the future of Southeast Asia was absolutely vital to the U.S. The U.S. was prepared to tolerate true neutralism, but it would not, under any circumstances, tolerate Communist attempts to subvert, colonize or take over nations such as Laos and other countries in the area. To combat it, the U.S. would take any measures necessary. If Khrushchev, instead of damping down the dangerous fire in Laos, chose to fan the flames, the U.S. reaction would be immediate. For every two guns the Communists sent...
Since "equality of opportunity to education through access to nonsegregated public schools is a right secured by the Constitution to all citizens," said the judges in a roundhouse ruling, "every law or resolution of the Legislature, every act of the Executive, which seeks to subvert the enjoyment of this right, [is] unconstitutional and null and void." At the same time, the court ordered four timorous New Orleans banks to honor checks that the school board had written against its own account, further demanded that the city of New Orleans release to the board $800,000 in withheld funds...
...vote endorsing his policies in the Congo, briefly but eloquently punctured Khrushchev's proposal to abolish the office of Secretary-General in favor of a veto-ridden three-man directorate. Implicitly accusing the Soviets of trying to oust him because he had opposed their attempts to subvert the Congo in defiance of U.N. resolutions, Hammarskjold took up their challenge. Said he: "I would rather see the office of Secretary-General break on strict adherence to the principles of independence, impartiality and objectivity than drift on the basis of compromise...
...other words, Black manages to succeed in a very small way in clearing up some of the confusion about charity, conscience, and self-interest. Charity is not enough, because the blind giving of funds may subvert economies rather than develop them; self-interest--looking at the poor third of the world as an economic battle-field in a giant bipolar struggle--may be "competing with the Communists on their own terms." The rationale of competition, as Rostow has pointed out, is not a necessary one. The recent rapid diffusion of military power leads one to suspect that it will...