Word: testing
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Moreover, in the Administration's view, the Angolan aid issue is a basic test of American will in the face of Soviet expansionism. Kissinger argued that only because of the U.S.-supplied equipment, the anti-Soviet groups in the former Portuguese colony have so far managed to thwart Moscow's desire for a foothold on the southwest coast of Africa. Among other things, Soviet air and naval bases in Angola would give the Russians the capacity to intercept Western supertankers en route from the Persian Gulf to Europe...
...series of eight games is exactly the kind of test of international hockey supremacy North American fans have been clamoring for since 1972, when the Russians ambushed the N.H.L. stars, winning two and tying one of their first four games. Stunned N.H.L. fans complained that their team had been handicapped by limited training time and unfamiliarity with one another. "Wait until the Russians try to play les Canadiens," people said...
...White House, Look chronicled and celebrated a generation of American life. Novelist-Humorist Leo Rosten, who was once chief editorial adviser to Look, has pored through back issues to compile this souvenir album. Articles by Norman Mailer, Harry Truman, Eugene O'Neill and others do not stand the test of age. But the powerful pictures of '40s war, '50s politics and '60s frenzy more than compensate for shortcomings in the text...
More than he knew, "Give-'em-hell" Harry Truman was quite faithful to his predecessor's set policy. During the Allied leaders' Potsdam Conference in July 1945, Truman learned that the first A-bomb test at Alamogordo, N. Mex., had been a success, enabling him to tell the Russians, as Churchill put it, "just where they got on and off." Indeed, some revisionist historians have insisted that U.S. officials used the bomb against Japan primarily-if not solely-to impress their military might upon Russia. But Sherwin disputes this interpretation, despite his conviction that both Roosevelt...
...meet had been touted as a tough test for the Crimson thinclads. However, a combination of strategy, good luck, and surprising early season performances led to the Harvard romp...