Word: tinder
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...intensely private. By allowing a released time program in their schools, states have encouraged the spread of religion actively, and although there is nothing wrong with religion, it is none of any public agency's business. The form taken by this prodding may be subtler than the stake and tinder box of bygone days, but the invasion of privacy it represents is no less marked, the right of free and unpressured choice it hinders no less violated...
...Allez-y." The words were like a spark in dry tinder. Within a week, nationalist resentment had flashed into open rebellion; 130 Arabs were wounded in a clash with French police at Beja; 15 were hurt in another riot at Ferryville. The French acted promptly, arrested five nationalist leaders plus a handful of Communists, and sent Bourguiba himself into "exile" in a small village in the north...
...Bone-Dry Tinder. All of those advantages, so painfully won, could be lost in a few months after a Korean cease-fire if the West lapsed into complacency. If rearmament slackened off, if the U.S. reduced its efforts to bolster up threatened Asiatic countries, if the West made concessions on Formosa or U.N. membership for Red China-then the Korean War would not have been worth the West's fighting...
...bleeding, the Chinese Communists could now push harder at Indo-China and the rest of South Asia. Relieved of the burden of supplying a deadlocked war in Korea, world Communism could now turn more energetically to the tactics that suited it better. The world was speckled with bone-dry tinder piles-Berlin, and all of Germany, Yugoslavia and, on top of the list, Iran...
...casualty list well into the hundreds. Like most Siamese squalls, it was a private fight, apparently unconnected with the worldwide struggle between East and West. Foreigners, who feel that Siam is gravely threatened from Red China, could not help feeling that the Siamese were lighting matches in a tinder-dry hay barn. Local observers, on the other hand, felt that the coup had served a useful purpose. They pointed out that the navy, rated before the coup as the weakest link in Siam's defenses, had fought beyond all expectations. The air force, said one taxpayer, "had proved well...