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Now the government must do that ; but the government is left with no reserve granary, under the agricultural system it has ordained. | do | {
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Now the government must do that ; but the government is left with no reserve granary, under the agricultural system it has ordained. | left | {
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Now the government must do that ; but the government is left with no reserve granary, under the agricultural system it has ordained. | ordained | {
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Thus the government simultaneously undertook the vast burden of social security which had traditionally been privately discharged, and created a national scarcity which has engendered calamitous problems of social security. | undertook | {
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Thus the government simultaneously undertook the vast burden of social security which had traditionally been privately discharged, and created a national scarcity which has engendered calamitous problems of social security. | discharged | {
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Thus the government simultaneously undertook the vast burden of social security which had traditionally been privately discharged, and created a national scarcity which has engendered calamitous problems of social security. | created | {
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Thus the government simultaneously undertook the vast burden of social security which had traditionally been privately discharged, and created a national scarcity which has engendered calamitous problems of social security. | engendered | {
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The second mistake is Tibet. | is | {
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Tibet has historically served China as a buffer state. | served | {
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China never tried to integrate Tibet by extirpating the people 's religion and institutions. | tried | {
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China never tried to integrate Tibet by extirpating the people 's religion and institutions. | integrate | {
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China never tried to integrate Tibet by extirpating the people 's religion and institutions. | extirpating | {
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Red China is trying to do this, and she is not likely ever to succeed. | trying | {
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Red China is trying to do this, and she is not likely ever to succeed. | do | {
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Red China is trying to do this, and she is not likely ever to succeed. | is | {
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Red China is trying to do this, and she is not likely ever to succeed. | succeed | {
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Tibet is too vast, the terrain is too difficult. | is | {
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Tibet is too vast, the terrain is too difficult. | is | {
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Tibet may bleed China as Algeria is bleeding France. | bleed | {
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Tibet may bleed China as Algeria is bleeding France. | bleeding | {
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These continuing pressures, social, economic and military, are doing much to keep China in a heightening state of tension. | doing | {
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These continuing pressures, social, economic and military, are doing much to keep China in a heightening state of tension. | keep | {
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The imposition of yet another pressure, a strong one, from the outside, might cause it to snap. | cause | {
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The imposition of yet another pressure, a strong one, from the outside, might cause it to snap. | snap | {
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The planners in Taiwan struck me as realistic men. | struck | {
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They know that they must depend heavily on factors outside their own control. | know | {
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They know that they must depend heavily on factors outside their own control. | depend | {
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First and foremost, they depend on the inhuman idiocies of the Communist regime. | depend on | {
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On these they feel they can rely. | feel | {
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Secondly, they depend on America 's `` moral cooperation '' when the crucial moment arrives. | depend on | {
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Secondly, they depend on America 's `` moral cooperation '' when the crucial moment arrives. | arrives | {
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They hope that if history vouchsafes the West another Budapest, we will receive the opportunity gladly. | hope | {
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They hope that if history vouchsafes the West another Budapest, we will receive the opportunity gladly. | vouchsafes | {
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They hope that if history vouchsafes the West another Budapest, we will receive the opportunity gladly. | receive | {
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I remarked jocularly to the President that the future of China would be far more certain if he would invite a planeload of selected American Liberals to Quemoy on an odd day. | remarked | {
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I remarked jocularly to the President that the future of China would be far more certain if he would invite a planeload of selected American Liberals to Quemoy on an odd day. | be | {
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I remarked jocularly to the President that the future of China would be far more certain if he would invite a planeload of selected American Liberals to Quemoy on an odd day. | invite | {
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He affected ( most properly ) not to understand my point. | affected | {
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He affected ( most properly ) not to understand my point. | understand | {
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But he - and all of China - wear the scars of American indecisiveness, and he knows what an uncertain ally we are. | wear | {
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But he - and all of China - wear the scars of American indecisiveness, and he knows what an uncertain ally we are. | knows | {
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But he - and all of China - wear the scars of American indecisiveness, and he knows what an uncertain ally we are. | are | {
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We have been grand to Formosa itself - lots of aid, and, most of the time, a policy of support for the offshore islands. | been | {
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But our outlook has been, and continues to be, defensive. | been | {
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But our outlook has been, and continues to be, defensive. | continues | {
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But our outlook has been, and continues to be, defensive. | be | {
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A great deal depends on the crystallization of Mr. Kennedy 's views on the world struggle. | depends on | {
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The Free Chinese know that the situation on the Mainland is in flux, and are poised to strike. | know | {
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The Free Chinese know that the situation on the Mainland is in flux, and are poised to strike. | is | {
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The Free Chinese know that the situation on the Mainland is in flux, and are poised to strike. | poised | {
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The Free Chinese know that the situation on the Mainland is in flux, and are poised to strike. | strike | {
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The moment of truth is the moment of crisis. | is | {
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During the slow buildup, the essence of a policy or a man is concealed under embroidered details, fine words, strutting gestures. | concealed | {
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The crisis burns these suddenly away. | burns | {
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There the truth is, open to eyes that are willing to look. | is | {
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There the truth is, open to eyes that are willing to look. | are | {
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There the truth is, open to eyes that are willing to look. | look | {
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The moment passes. | passes | {
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New self-deceiving rags are hurriedly tossed on the too-naked bones. | tossed | {
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A truth-revealing crisis erupted in Katanga for a couple of days this month, to be quickly smothered by the high pressure verbal fog that is kept on tap for such emergencies. | erupted | {
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A truth-revealing crisis erupted in Katanga for a couple of days this month, to be quickly smothered by the high pressure verbal fog that is kept on tap for such emergencies. | smothered | {
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A truth-revealing crisis erupted in Katanga for a couple of days this month, to be quickly smothered by the high pressure verbal fog that is kept on tap for such emergencies. | kept | {
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Before memory, too, clouds over, let us make a note or two of what could be seen. | clouds over | {
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Before memory, too, clouds over, let us make a note or two of what could be seen. | make | {
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Before memory, too, clouds over, let us make a note or two of what could be seen. | seen | {
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The measure was instantly taken, as always in such cases, of public men at many levels. | taken | {
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One knows better, now, who has bone and who has jelly in his spine. | knows | {
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One knows better, now, who has bone and who has jelly in his spine. | has | {
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One knows better, now, who has bone and who has jelly in his spine. | has | {
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But I am here concerned more with policy than with men. | am | {
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Public men come and go but great issues of policy remain. | come | {
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Public men come and go but great issues of policy remain. | go | {
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Public men come and go but great issues of policy remain. | remain | {
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Now, everyone knows - or knew in the week of December 10 - that something had gone shockingly wrong with American foreign policy. | knows | {
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Now, everyone knows - or knew in the week of December 10 - that something had gone shockingly wrong with American foreign policy. | knew | {
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Now, everyone knows - or knew in the week of December 10 - that something had gone shockingly wrong with American foreign policy. | gone | {
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The United States was engaged in a military attack on a peaceful, orderly people governed by a regime that had proved itself the most pro-Western and anti-Communist within any of the new nations - the only place in Africa, moreover, where a productive relationship between whites and blacks had apparently been achieved. | engaged | {
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The United States was engaged in a military attack on a peaceful, orderly people governed by a regime that had proved itself the most pro-Western and anti-Communist within any of the new nations - the only place in Africa, moreover, where a productive relationship between whites and blacks had apparently been achieved. | governed | {
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The United States was engaged in a military attack on a peaceful, orderly people governed by a regime that had proved itself the most pro-Western and anti-Communist within any of the new nations - the only place in Africa, moreover, where a productive relationship between whites and blacks had apparently been achieved. | proved | {
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The United States was engaged in a military attack on a peaceful, orderly people governed by a regime that had proved itself the most pro-Western and anti-Communist within any of the new nations - the only place in Africa, moreover, where a productive relationship between whites and blacks had apparently been achieved. | achieved | {
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Of course the fighting was officially under the auspices of the United Nations. | was | {
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But in the moment of truth everyone could see that the U. S. was in reality the principal. | see | {
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But in the moment of truth everyone could see that the U. S. was in reality the principal. | was | {
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The moment simultaneously revealed that in the crisis our policy ran counter to that of all our NATO allies, to the entire Western community. | revealed | {
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] |
The moment simultaneously revealed that in the crisis our policy ran counter to that of all our NATO allies, to the entire Western community. | ran | {
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] |
By our policy the West was - is - split. | was | {
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By our policy the West was - is - split. | is | {
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But the key revelation is not new. | is | {
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It reappears, in whole or part, whenever a new crisis exposes the reality : in Cuba last spring ( with which the Dominican events of last month should be paired ) ; at the peaks of the nuclear test and the Berlin cycles ; in relation to Laos, Algeria, South Africa ; right now, with almost cartoon emphasis, in the tempo... | reappears | {
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} | [
"appear again"
] | [
"reappear%2:30:00::"
] |
It reappears, in whole or part, whenever a new crisis exposes the reality : in Cuba last spring ( with which the Dominican events of last month should be paired ) ; at the peaks of the nuclear test and the Berlin cycles ; in relation to Laos, Algeria, South Africa ; right now, with almost cartoon emphasis, in the tempo... | exposes | {
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It reappears, in whole or part, whenever a new crisis exposes the reality : in Cuba last spring ( with which the Dominican events of last month should be paired ) ; at the peaks of the nuclear test and the Berlin cycles ; in relation to Laos, Algeria, South Africa ; right now, with almost cartoon emphasis, in the tempo... | paired | {
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This prime element of the truth may be stated as follows : | stated | {
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Under prevailing policy, the U. S. can take the initiative against the Right, but cannot take the initiative against the Left. | take | {
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"get into ... | [
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"take%2:41:04::"
] |
Under prevailing policy, the U. S. can take the initiative against the Right, but cannot take the initiative against the Left. | take | {
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"carry out"
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It makes no difference what part of the world is involved, what form of regime, what particular issue. | makes | {
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It makes no difference what part of the world is involved, what form of regime, what particular issue. | is | {
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The U. S. cannot take the initiative against the Left. | take | {
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There is even some question whether the U. S. can any longer defend itself against an initiative by the Left. | is | {
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There is even some question whether the U. S. can any longer defend itself against an initiative by the Left. | defend | {
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"defend%2:33:05::"
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We can attack Tshombe, but not Gigenza. | attack | {
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"attack%2:33:00::"
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