Word: exploitatively
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...would give future generations that Vassar look. The villainess of the piece, female Senator Faye Sumner Knott, (sic) has predatory eyes slanted toward Adam, but partisan politics interfere. The first Adam is not to be Republican. In desperation, the U.S. turns to A.I. (artificial insemination), lest the Russians exploit two normal Mongolians newly discovered in Tashkent and outstrip the American effort...
Curiously enough, he added, the Arab masses regard Jewish settlement as "the symbol of Western oppression, and leaders are thus able to exploit a hatred for British imperialism to keep out the Jews...
...Moral Principles. Nicolson believes that it is to England's credit that she did not exploit this power. The Congress of Vienna contains brilliant, mostly sympathetic pen-portraits of all the principal actors, but Britain's Lord Castlereagh is Nicolson's favorite. In his day, Castlereagh was the best-hated statesman in England. (Byron called him "the vulgarest tool that Tyranny could want," and "the intellectual eunuch"; Shelley wrote the famous lines: I met Murder on the way-He had a mask like Castlereagh.) Contemptuous of parliamentary and public opinion, antiliberal, cold-blooded Castlereagh desired the independence...
...face once more the distinction between relative justice and tyranny. Our tyrannical opponent is as unscrupulous as tyrannies always are. . . . Since this new tyranny is not only unscrupulous but possesses the guile to exploit our moral and political weaknesses, it must be the business of a genuine liberalism not to relax our outer defenses but to make our political and economic life more worthy of our faith and therefore more impregnable. War with Russia is neither imminent nor inevitable if we have a creative policy. Let us, therefore, avoid hysteria even while we abjure sentimental illusions...
...know of none. . . . America seeks no territory and seeks no reparations. . . . The U.S. must also repudiate [Molotov's] suggestion . . . that the economic clauses proposed by the U.S. and based upon the principle of equality and most-favored-nation treatment are part of an effort to exploit the ex-enemy countries for the selfish advantage...