Word: posing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...over much of the rest (see map). It is debatable whether the U.S. invasion provoked their campaign or whether the Communists would have begun swallowing big chunks of Cambodia anyway in the confusion that followed the ouster of Prince Norodom Sihanouk. What is abundantly clear is that the Communists pose a lethal challenge to the wobbly anti-Communist government of Premier Lon Nol. Unless Cambodia receives a quick transfusion of aid, South Viet Nam could well find itself flanked by another Communist government...
...Hurricane Camille. The idea that abundance can pose vast problems may be jarring. Yet the FAO, which for years led the way in warning that populations were growing faster than food production, now maintains that the world's agricultural potential is great enough to feed 157 billion people (v. the world's present population of 3.5 billion). Plainly, the Green Revolution has shown that the battle of food production can indeed be won. But not without its own kind of chaotic upheavals...
...When reporters asked about the attractive woman he had taken along, Heath, who is Britain's first bachelor Prime Minister since Arthur Balfour in 1902, archly dismissed questions of a possible romance. "Absolute nonsense," said Heath. "She's a friend of the navigator's." When photographers asked him to pose drinking beer with the boys in the pub, Heath replied: "No, thanks. I've got whisky in the plane." Journalists found his electioneering style dreary compared with Wilson. "Covering Heath," complained one reporter, "is like covering El Salvador in the World Cup matches...
...have undertones of browns, oranges, reds and golds-and even purple-in our skin? But never pink, which is the most common undertone in white skins and white makeup." Accordingly, makeup designed for white women is unflattering for blacks; it tends to make darker-toned skin look gray. Lips pose questions too. Many black women find it necessary to use two shades of lipstick to equalize skin color, because their bottom lips often are more pink than their tops...
That could pose a danger for the U.S. Right now American officials welcome revaluations because they tend to lower the price of U.S. goods in foreign markets. But revaluations also amount to a gradual cheapening of the dollar measured against other currencies: too many revaluations too close together could shake foreign faith in the dollar as the prop of the world financial system. The outcome could be another series of monetary crises, and perhaps imposition in self-defense by many countries of the exchange controls and trade restrictions that the U.S. has fought hard to dismantle...