Word: webbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time being let us be guided by the facts, which evidence that chauvinistic, expansionist psychosis generated by Maoism has not yet died down in Peking. The Chinese leadership continues in touch with the imperialist circles of the United States, Japan and a number of other states to spin a web of intrigues against the socialist community, against the progressive, revolutionary liberation forces. What is more, China definitely expects assistance from the West in modernizing its armed forces...
...Katharine) the enormously successful A Subtreasury of American Humor; he revised and updated the yellowing strictures of one of his Cornell English professors into The Elements of Style, a tiny textbook that has sold in the millions; he wrote three children's books, including one (Charlotte's Web, 1952) that has achieved the status of a classic...
...teen-age years) or for his one-gal-guy idealism (the play describes Annie as "very much like the woman whom Charlotte has ceased to be," so in effect Henry has been faithful to his belle idéale by switching mates). As this little boy lost in the web of words and wonders, Rees was a jumping-jack...
...heavily on the Gemayel government. Noting that both President Gemayel and General Ibrahim Tannous, commander of the Lebanese armed forces, are Maronite Christians hated by other religious factions, the commission declared, "Whatever their true intentions may be concerning the future of Lebanon, they are caught in the same tangled web of distrust, misunderstanding, malevolence, conspiracy and betrayal that has brought Lebanon to political bankruptcy and ruin...
...tente was an attempt to spin a web of agreements on arms control, trade and scientific and cultural exchanges that would give both sides a tangible stake in maintaining correct, if not exactly friendly, relations. Nixon and Brezhnev formalized the concept in 1972 by signing an agreement pledging each side not to seek a "unilateral advantage at the expense of the other." The Soviets have long accused the U.S. of violating the spirit of détente by encouraging Egypt to switch from Kremlin client to U.S. ally?for which there is no evidence?and by enacting the Jackson-Vanik amendment...