Word: adventurist
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...pursue adventurist policies on a global scale, the Kremlin leadership needs stability and security within the Soviet bloc; it also requires that all be quiet along the eastern front with China. It was by no means coincidental that the Soviets were receptive to the Nixon-Kissinger initiatives for détente in 1969; that year the Soviets were fighting on the border with China. Similarly, Brezhnev would like, if possible, to defuse Soviet-American antagonisms now, because a military invasion of Poland, at a time when heightened East-West tensions are still crackling...
Some Harvard professors, however, underscored Haig's foreign policy experience and praised him as a strategic thinker. "Mr. Haig knows where Berlin is," Karl W. Deutsch, professor of Government, said. "He will make no adventurist moves against Cuba without thinking of global consequences...
...pursuit of materialism; it has simply pursued the goal of affluence for a majority of its populace more successfully than its near neighbors. Moreover, acknowledging the zeal (however misplaced) of idealists is one thing; quite another is accepting, at face value, the radical claims of a violent adventurist movement with no moral vision beyond Götterdämmerung. West Germans somehow ought to be assured that the world will not think badly of them for interfering with the work of those who wish to destroy them. - Lance Morrow
...broad organizing strategy, and purposeful tactics of protest. The rush to action--any action--proved irresistible. The result, in Cambridge, was a pair of window-breaking sprees in the Square and a confused strike, centered around grades and exams; in the nation at large, it was a succession of adventurist and terrorist acts...
...Indochina will not end this Spring. There is nothing that the American people, or the people of Southeast Asia, can do to stop the war by June. It would be politically immature, or adventurist, to think otherwise. But this should not deter those of us who say we are against the war, nor should we be discouraged by it. It is only the American people who can stop America's aggression against the people and land of Southeast Asia. No amount of courage and self-sacrifice by the Indochinese can stop raids by hundreds of B-52's based...