Word: without
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Friendly Advice. Convinced that Europe cannot be defended without the U.S., his fellow Common Marketeers are particularly appalled by De Gaulle's implied intention to set up Europe as a rival, instead of a partner, to the U.S. The British dislike his obvious determination to exclude Britain from his European confederation. More simply, many Europeans feel that De Gaulle's dreams of grandeur for France, or even for Europe as a whole, are a century out of date...
...bitter disputes that came out of the violent partition of India and Pakistan was what to do about the Indus River basin, which sprawled across the borders with no regard to politics. The Indus, whose flow is twice that of the Nile, is Pakistan's lifeline; without it, all Western Pakistan would be a desert. Though only 8% of the basin's area stayed in India, it includes the headwaters of three of the six principal tributary streams. For one brief period in 1948, India, eager to divert the flow into her desert territories, cut off Pakistan...
...Japanese ladies were urged to pull themselves together and "not be too shy." They were implored "not to giggle with a hand over their mouths, hang their heads and look downward without answering." This practice is considered a delicate expression of maidenly modesty by the Japanese, but a Westerner might "suspect he is being teased." Finally, "a lady should always be careful to keep her knees together when sitting. A lady should never squat...
...Communist agents on his Free China Fortnightly was not believed. "If Lei had really been suspected of Communist affiliations," said a Nationalist, "he would have been arrested long ago." Lei's political colleagues refused to scare; they announced they would go ahead and establish their China Democratic Party without...
Jubilee Year. But Philip had little use for the manifestations of mysticism, including his own. Often he would break down weeping, but later he would belittle such outbursts by remarking that prostitutes shed buckets of tears on hearing of Christ's crucifixion without changing their way of life in the least...