Word: bases
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...future unrest. If he follows through, the student demands will probably be satisfied. In this case, as one engineering student proudly remarked, "Our country may be the sole example in the world... and a good testament to the experiment for self-governing democracy." The openness, dialogue, and participatory base now present in Yugoslavia make this a valid possibility...
Both in his legislative program and in his frequent visits to the countryside, Thieu is plainly striving to extend the sway of his government beyond Saigon. Many legislators, content to serve and deal in the capital without building a political base in the countryside, are unsympathetic to his efforts and are often outright obstructive. It remains to be seen for how long Thieu, in the midst of his struggles to stabilize the economy and strengthen the army, will put up with such tactics before taking more severe steps to curb the powers of the kindergarten...
...last bramble on a bush, while in the distance a minuscule brush stroke may distinctly show a man walking or working underneath a tree. Bruegel began with ships' timbers of seasoned oak. He set the planks edge to edge, smoothed them, and then brushed on a white gesso base. He drew his composition on the gesso in gray chalk. That done, he would start painting in egg tempera, thinly and swiftly. His first layers of color, though, often bore no overt relation to the effect in his mind. Ice, for example, might be lemon-yellow at the start. Blue...
...U.S.O.'s perennial Santa Claus, now on his 19th Christmas tour, is whisked away each night to the Erawan Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand. Though Terence Cardinal Cooke and other distinguished visitors have been billeted in Viet Nam this year and Bob himself insists that the Bangkok base is just "cheaper and easier," it seems that morale-conscious headquarters will never risk the loss of Hope if they can help...
...effect, Borges creates literary logarithms that raise base ideas to exhilarating heights. Funes the Memorious posits a man crippled by a memory so perfect that he must devise a system of enumeration to handle the infinite series of indiscriminate recollections that play on his mind. Funes is incapable of generalized thought because, as Borges explains, "to think is to forget differences." In The Aleph, omniscience takes the form of a small spot of light where everything going on in the world can be seen simultaneously from every angle. And in an imaginative murder mystery called The Garden of Forking Paths...