Word: exploits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...answers to all five turn on the interpretation of one: widespread signs of unrest in the Soviet empire. The Americans, eying the headlines on troubles in Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Rumania, are vaguely aware of a chance to exploit the Reds' weakness and strike a blow for freedom. The question is where and how, and answers are not yet forthcoming (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Europe, by contrast, seems more relieved than challenged. Far from seeking ways to press the West's advantage, the French in particular seem to regard the Soviet "thaw out" and the East German uprising...
Your story . . . made my blood boil. I did not realize it was legally possible to exploit one's children in such a manner...
...wares is most annoying and objectionable. The discontinuance of the sound track would help restore a greater element of peace and quiet to the Harvard community and would stop the dangerous precedent set in last term's blood drive, with its sound truck solicitations. Must Winthrop House continue to exploit its unfortunate captive audience, unobtrusively studying in their rooms? What shall it profit Winthrop House if it break even and surrender to modern American advertising technique? Ecrasez-Pinfame!David A. Halperin...
...five dashing, bulletproofed days, the Communist dictator of Yugoslavia was the guest of anti-Communist Britain, the first Red chief of state ever to visit the country. For both guest and hosts, it was a visit not of sentiment but of self-interest. The British hoped to exploit Tito's break from Moscow and to fix him solidly in the anteroom of the Western alliance. Tito was out to get political and economic value for his heresy against Moscow...
...only a wider opening in a vein it has been profitably mining for years. The phenomenon of polarized light has been a scientific curiosity for at least two centuries, but Land, as a teen-age youngster experimenting in his home laboratory, was the first to find a way to exploit it. He impregnated plastic with tiny needle-like crystals that allowed only light waves vibrating in a single plane to pass through. As a physics student at Harvard, Land perfected the idea, and left before graduation to found his own company...