Word: woof
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From the perspective of the '70s, it is all too easy to dismiss America's past isolationism as inevitably misguided and foolish. As Selig Adler points out in The Isolationist Impulse, the doctrine in many ways is "woven into the warp and woof of the American epic." From the very beginnings of the U.S., immigrants envisioned it as a way to a new existence. "They reasoned," Adler wrote of the colonists, "that God Himself had intended to divide the globe into separate spheres. America was the 'New Zion,' and Providence had severed this 'American Israel...
...presidential campaign to limit textile imports from Japan, so it seemed a good deal for the U.S. Moreover, Sato needed Okinawa to placate his anti-American opponents in the Diet, and the U.S. needed Sato as a solidly pro-American political leader in Japan. But then the woof got warped...
...night watchmen in Quincy spends a good part of his time trying to force outside a German Shepherd stray which has recently made Quincy his home. The dog, named Woof by a few students, is well trained and extremely friendly, and now he's afraid to leave the courtyard. Any move by the superintendent or his staff to get rid of Woof is not going to make him very popular with the rest of the House, which has started providing for his needs...
...Woof! woof!" Meaning no, you come up here...
...Woof...