Word: clear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Americans appear to regard cultural exchange as a vehicle to penetrate Russia's most neurotic fear of foreign institutions; the Soviets seem to forsee economic cooperation which will hasten the economic advance of Communism--and this difference of viewpoint was clear in the proposals: the United States sought exchange of teachers, students, and ordinary tourists, while the Soviet Union proposed increased emphasis on technology and trade...
Soviet proposals make it clear that the United States will not get full cooperation until it abandons its attemps to defeat Communism and accepts the challenge of competition. Unless Americans abandon their conceit that refusing to trade with Communists will prove the superiority of capitalism, the Soviets will suspect, quite rightly, that cultural exchange is only a hollow gesture toward co-existence...
...whose round oak tables students and masters can gather. "It is hoped," Saarinen added, "that television will be kept out of these rooms, so that they become centers of conversation and discussion rather than areas where people sit drugged by canned entertainment." As for the name "buttery," Saarinen made clear that he was not thinking of dairy products, pointedly cited the Oxford Dictionary derivation: "Buttery, sb. ME. (app. a. OF. boterie - bouteillerie:-late L. botaria, f. bota, var. of butta cask, bottle; see BUTT...
...they get back to full production. Though a few companies whose business is in slack period, may be able to build up small stockpiles during; the 80-day Taft-Hartley injunction period, most companies will not be able to build up any appreciable supply. The pipelines are so clear that steel will be used as fast as it is delivered. If the strike is resumed after the injunction is ended, shortages will show up immediately...
...Armada, by Garrett Mattingly. A clear and perceptive account of Spain's great naval campaign against Elizabeth's England, and of the stormy political and religious climate in which it was fought...