Word: validates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Americans never paid attention to British Foreign Secretary George Canning's justification of the Monroe Doctrine: "We have called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the old." Shielded by two oceans and enriched by a bountiful nature, we proclaimed our special situation as universally valid, even for nations whose narrower margin of survival meant that their range of choices was far more limited than...
This is not the first time that the 15-nation alliance has been racked with doubts about its ability to repel or even sufficiently deter a Soviet-led invasion of Western Europe. Yet NATO's present concern over its battlefield limitations is probably more valid than ever...
...left under these circumstances, but, he says, "in order to come out of our economic crisis, it would be foolish not to utilize the parliamentary nonbelligerence of any political group that believes this government the only one possible." He adds, "In politics there is a clause that is always valid: rebus sic stantibus [circumstances being what they...
...period after mid-1936 when he last claimed to have seen Chambers. Almost all of the personal statements Mr. Chambers made about Mr. Hiss in connection with that relationship--including some I disbelieved at the time of the American Scholar article--turned out to be quite valid. Let me give you an illustration: at that time I was very skeptical about Chambers saying Hiss was deaf in one ear, and cupped (his hand over) his ear. As it turned out, Hiss' defense files contained several letters from his lawyers saying that they had visited ear specialists Mr. Hiss had consulted...
...flaw--nowhere does she undertake a sympathetic examination of the effect of the status quo on anybody other than women. If the structure of mothering in society were really the only source of world problems--Rich blames patriarchy for every problem from anomie to malnutrition--her argument might be valid; if women alone were exploited under the present system, then repossessing our bodies would feed everyone. Her paranoia blinds her, forcing her to reach a puerile conclusion. Which is too bad, because she starts out with an uncontestable argument. It's just that she gets lost somewhere along...