Word: vis
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...Ideas for its future use are solicited from the sightseers, who have suggested, variously, that it should eventually be turned into a West Coast Statue of Liberty, a crab farm, a U.N. memorial, a seminary, an Indian amusement park or a monument to the conquest of space. Some stern-vis-aged visitors think it should become a prison again, but others suggest simply giving it back to the pelicans...
...Israelis are "thoroughly aware" that they underrated the Arabs both militarily and in their efforts to isolate Israel politically, and this has led to a leftward move in Israeli policy toward a more dovish political stance vis-a-vis the Arab countries, several members said...
...five Russians were nabbed two weeks ago with a large cache of incriminating evidence including a radio transmitter and receiver, "counter-revolutionary documents," and code books. At first the Chinese denied knowing where the Russians were, said Moscow, but after two days, the diplomats and their wives were allowed vis its from Soviet embassy officials. Two days later the five were hustled aboard a plane bound for Moscow...
Jong can see that analysis needs a facelift before it can tackle the woman problem. Her shrinks are half people--rigidly attuned to convention, reactionary vis-a-vis the issues of the family, the position of women, the cash transactions from patient to doctor. But problem patient as she might be, she is devout about the rule of the trade: "But first we must understand the problem." Make the unconscious conscious, burn the shadowy fantasies of your netherworld out of their holes. So to illuminate what happens in the mind in between conscious desire and conscious action. But analysis...
Referring to the rise in tuition, Kaufmann said, "If student costs grow by six per cent, or $300, our charges reflect the six per cent change in national income levels. We would not change our position statistically vis-a-vis anybody with this rise," he said...