Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Allies forced Russia to barter for European spheres of influence as early as October 1944, they made inevitable the occupation of Eastern as well as Western Europe; as soon as they tampered with the internal affairs of Vietnam and Korea as early as 1945, they insured Communist support for national liberation movements in those countries; when they agreed to bomb Hiroshima to terrorize the Russians in Potsdam as well as to defeat the Japanese in Japan, they engendered the cost and deadliness of a prolonged arms race. Far from being victimized and put upon by Cold War hysteria, America...
...this qualification as it may, it does not alter the fact that the Center's early work lent objective support to U. S. policy goals. Of the 15 Fellows who visited the Center each year, just less than half were American officials, and the rest were almost exclusively from Britain, France, West Germany, South Korea, Japan, and other nations vital to the success of the Free World Rim Strategy. They had come here to study concrete situations, relevant theories, and game strategies; their purpose was to improve the efficacy of their governments, governments friendly to American-influence and dependent...
...cunning intent by playing on peoples' fears and hostile emotions to attract to himself mass support. He built his following by feeding hateful attitudes and by unleashing bigotry, for to the frightened and worried the fears he played on were so real that he appeared to them as hero and savior. He advanced his political career by first inciting a mass public opinion...
These critics go about their task in a way hauntingly familiar to an older generation. Their aim is to build a following for themselves. They would do this by sowing doubtsand suspicions. They hope then to attract sufficient support to be able to enforce demands on those whom they malign and designate as the enemy, using the old means of distortion, accusation, guilt imputed by association, and so on. And they thrive as people lend them credence...
...simply ruthlessly and senselessly exploiting the poor and the oppressed. The word "expansion" was then seized on as a slogan and chanted again and again in mindless fashion to confuse and defame, and beyond this, it was hoped, to impress the confused and by doing so to gain increased support...