Word: outposts
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...anything but wicked. Burlesque has never come back since La Guardia, and the strip joints are more pathetic than inflammatory-particularly since Strip Row on West 52nd Street was closed down in deference to all the big new office skyscrapers and remote Greenwich Village has become almost the last outpost of the skin trade...
...League is supposed to be the last outpost of athletic innocence, but the recent debate on recruiting has shown that even the Ivies cannot agree on what, in fact, is right. Dartmouth sends its coaches out beating the bush for applicants, and says there is nothing wrong with it. Princeton also does a good deal of active recruiting, but its officials are less eager to admit...
...plans for a steel mill. London has promised $20 million to improve the harbor. World Bank and U.N. missions have been in Singapore discussing ways to provide the $110 million outside help needed to complete Lee's $330 million, five-year plan to turn Singapore into an industrial outpost to rival Hong Kong. Labeling Communists "the ultimate enemy," Lee has shaken up trade union leadership, set up an arbitration court to cut down on strikes...
...change of the American policy from disarming Japan (like Germany) to rearming it (like Germany) has produced some bitterness, especially because the status of disarmament was a vital part of the constitution given to Japan by MacArthur. But beyond this the geographical situation of Japan, which makes it an outpost of the Asiatic continent, awakens the desire of this ninety-million nation to change their function and to become politically independent. This is probably naive in view of the present world, but it is emotionally understandable...
Most important, the Chinese feel that Formosa must become a truly thriving outpost of intellectual freedom for all of Asia. Said Dr. Hu, as he summed up the opportunity: "I believe I am justified to conclude that the men now in control of the Chinese mainland are still afraid of the spirit of freedom, the spirit of independent thinking, the courage to doubt, and the spirit and method of evidential thinking I believe the tradition of the humanistic and rationalistic China has not been destroyed...