Word: sure
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...haven for thousands upon thousands of East German refugees in flight from the drab, despondent backdrop of Communist East Germany. West Berlin's symbolism is repeated on a much larger scale in Konrad Adenauer's German Federal Republic. To erase Western strength in Berlin would be a sure step toward weakening West Germany, and the Russians have never ceased trying to punch a hole in NATO, to neutralize Germany and take it out of play by a succession of alternate bluffs and bribes. In this they have enjoyed a certain sympathy and support from ardent Western believers...
Instead Willy Brandt was speaking, to the point of hoarseness, to make sure that the Communists got less than their 2.7% of the last vote. The Communist Party is outlawed in the Federal Republic but free to run in quadripartite Berlin. The despised Communists campaigned with the slogan "A vote for the Communists is a vote for normalization" and "Vote against the occupation parties." At a claque-packed rally in West Berlin, white-maned Hermann Matern of the East German Politburo proclaimed that Western commercial planes have no right to fly over East Germany to West Berlin without his government...
Economic aid, to be sure, is necessary, but as Bowles observes, "Revolutions don't come out of poverty; they come out of injustice and frustration." The dream which Americans have lived on and with which they currently seem to be disenchanted is also the dream of those nations occupying the grey land stretching from Iran to Korea. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are attributes of the good life in Backwash, U.S.A., as well as in Cairo and Rangoon...
Walter B. Farnham '59, president of the Harvard Opera Guild, disagreed, however. "I'm not altogether sure it's too good to have a director at all," he said, "Amateur directors here would not get adequate experience, and, after all, this is one of the main aims of the College's dramatic program...
...Sure and it didn't give the temperature, or market reports, or the scratches at Suffolk Downs--just the time, or an idea of time, for the four faces never reached agreement on the hour until they knew their time...