Word: brink
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...Asia-Viet Nam, which is now our baby 100%, will be down the drain if present trends continue. In Africa-Zanzibar, like Cuba, is now a jumping-off place for further penetration of that great continent. In Latin America-Cuba is gone, Bolivia is going, Brazil is on the brink, not to mention the mess in Panama. In Europe-we gave the cold shoulder to De Gaulle, and now he gives the warm hand to Mao Tse-tung...
...Brazil lives in an endless financial crisis, is so deeply in debt to other countries that it is on the brink of bankruptcy. The country's inflation is incredible: prices went up about 85% last year. Much to blame is the government of demagogic President João Goulart, who hints that he would turn to the Soviet Union if the U.S. cut its financial aid. The U.S. continues to pour in money, will probably reschedule all Brazil's debts soon for easier payment...
...cataract of the cliff of heaven fell blinding off the brink...
...woman, though there is no proof that she has ever really been anyone else's. The selfish mistakes of a lifetime gradually filter into her drawing room to offer comic rebuke. One son marries the spitfiery image of his mother, and the couple travels to the brink of divorce. Too little love, rather than too much, has turned another son into a mother's boy, and he has married a nymphomaniac. A discarded husband and father of 29 years before turns up to meet his sons and resample a bit of the vocal and emotional hell that...
Uncomfortable Memory. As they seemed to approach the brink-and the really hard bargaining this week-both Bonn and Paris pulled short. "The struggle should not be taken so seriously," said Ludwig Erhard in a speech at Heidelberg University. "There will be no quarrel among friends." In Paris, France's Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville said that there was no question of "France's determination to pursue European unification in the twin economic and political spheres." And yet with De Gaulle in the picture, one could never be sure. There was an uncomfortable memory of Christmas past...