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It was a sort of poetic justice that at the time of his own demise a new plot to overthrow the Venezuelan government, reportedly involving the use of Dominican arms by former Venezuelan Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez, has been uncovered and quashed. | uncovered | {
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It was a sort of poetic justice that at the time of his own demise a new plot to overthrow the Venezuelan government, reportedly involving the use of Dominican arms by former Venezuelan Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez, has been uncovered and quashed. | quashed | {
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The recent history of the Dominican Republic is an almost classical study of the way in which even a professedly benevolent dictatorship tends to become oppressive. | is | {
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The recent history of the Dominican Republic is an almost classical study of the way in which even a professedly benevolent dictatorship tends to become oppressive. | become | {
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Unquestionably Trujillo did some good things for his country : he improved public facilities such as roads and sanitation, attracted industry and investment and raised the standard of living notably. | did | {
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Unquestionably Trujillo did some good things for his country : he improved public facilities such as roads and sanitation, attracted industry and investment and raised the standard of living notably. | improved | {
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Unquestionably Trujillo did some good things for his country : he improved public facilities such as roads and sanitation, attracted industry and investment and raised the standard of living notably. | raised | {
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But the price was the silence of the grave for all criticism or opposition. | was | {
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El Benefactor 's vanity grew with his personal wealth. | grew | {
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The jails were filled to overflowing with political prisoners who had incurred his displeasure. | were | {
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The jails were filled to overflowing with political prisoners who had incurred his displeasure. | incurred | {
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He maintained amply financed lobbies in the United States and elsewhere which sycophantically chanted his praise, and his influence extended even to Congress. | maintained | {
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He maintained amply financed lobbies in the United States and elsewhere which sycophantically chanted his praise, and his influence extended even to Congress. | chanted | {
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He maintained amply financed lobbies in the United States and elsewhere which sycophantically chanted his praise, and his influence extended even to Congress. | extended | {
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Until the last year or so the profession of friendship with the United States had been an article of faith with Trujillo, and altogether too often this profession was accepted here as evidence of his good character. | been | {
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Until the last year or so the profession of friendship with the United States had been an article of faith with Trujillo, and altogether too often this profession was accepted here as evidence of his good character. | accepted | {
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Tardily the Government here came to understand how this country 's own reputation was tarnished by the association with repression. | came | {
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Tardily the Government here came to understand how this country 's own reputation was tarnished by the association with repression. | understand | {
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Tardily the Government here came to understand how this country 's own reputation was tarnished by the association with repression. | tarnished | {
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Last year, after Trujillo had been cited for numerous aggressions in the Caribbean, the United States and many other members of the Organization of American States broke diplomatic relations with him. | cited | {
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Last year, after Trujillo had been cited for numerous aggressions in the Caribbean, the United States and many other members of the Organization of American States broke diplomatic relations with him. | broke | {
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Thereupon followed a demonstration that tyranny knows no ideological confines. | followed | {
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Thereupon followed a demonstration that tyranny knows no ideological confines. | knows | {
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Trujillo 's dictatorship had been along conservative, right-wing lines. | been | {
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But after the censure he and his propaganda started mouthing Communist slogans. | started | {
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But after the censure he and his propaganda started mouthing Communist slogans. | mouthing | {
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There was considerable evidence of a tacit rapprochement with Castro in Cuba, previously a bete noire to Trujillo - thus illustrating the way in which totalitarianism of the right and left coalesces. | was | {
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There was considerable evidence of a tacit rapprochement with Castro in Cuba, previously a bete noire to Trujillo - thus illustrating the way in which totalitarianism of the right and left coalesces. | illustrating | {
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There was considerable evidence of a tacit rapprochement with Castro in Cuba, previously a bete noire to Trujillo - thus illustrating the way in which totalitarianism of the right and left coalesces. | coalesces | {
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What comes after Trujillo is now the puzzle. | comes after | {
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What comes after Trujillo is now the puzzle. | is | {
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The Dominican people have known no democratic institutions and precious little freedom for a generation, and all alternative leadership has been suppressed. | known | {
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The Dominican people have known no democratic institutions and precious little freedom for a generation, and all alternative leadership has been suppressed. | suppressed | {
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Perhaps the army will be able to maintain stability, but the vacuum of free institutions creates a great danger. | be | {
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Perhaps the army will be able to maintain stability, but the vacuum of free institutions creates a great danger. | maintain | {
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Perhaps the army will be able to maintain stability, but the vacuum of free institutions creates a great danger. | creates | {
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The Dominican Republic could turn toward Communist-type authoritarianism as easily as toward Western freedom. | turn | {
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Such a twist would be a tragedy for the Dominican people, who deserve to breathe without fear. | be | {
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Such a twist would be a tragedy for the Dominican people, who deserve to breathe without fear. | deserve | {
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Such a twist would be a tragedy for the Dominican people, who deserve to breathe without fear. | breathe | {
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For that reason any democratic reform and effort to bring genuine representative government to the Dominican Republic will need the greatest sympathy and help. | bring | {
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For that reason any democratic reform and effort to bring genuine representative government to the Dominican Republic will need the greatest sympathy and help. | need | {
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High-speed buses on the George Washington Memorial Parkway, operating between downtown Washington and Cabin John, Glen Echo and Brookmont, would constitute an alluring sample of what the new National Capital Transportation Agency can do for this city. | operating | {
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High-speed buses on the George Washington Memorial Parkway, operating between downtown Washington and Cabin John, Glen Echo and Brookmont, would constitute an alluring sample of what the new National Capital Transportation Agency can do for this city. | constitute | {
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High-speed buses on the George Washington Memorial Parkway, operating between downtown Washington and Cabin John, Glen Echo and Brookmont, would constitute an alluring sample of what the new National Capital Transportation Agency can do for this city. | do | {
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In presenting plans for such express buses before the Montgomery County Council, the administrator of the NCTA, C. Darwin Stolzenbach, was frankly seeking support for the projects his agency will soon be launching. | presenting | {
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In presenting plans for such express buses before the Montgomery County Council, the administrator of the NCTA, C. Darwin Stolzenbach, was frankly seeking support for the projects his agency will soon be launching. | seeking | {
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In presenting plans for such express buses before the Montgomery County Council, the administrator of the NCTA, C. Darwin Stolzenbach, was frankly seeking support for the projects his agency will soon be launching. | launching | {
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Because the buses would not stop on the parkway, land for bus stations and for parking areas nearby will be needed. | stop | {
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Because the buses would not stop on the parkway, land for bus stations and for parking areas nearby will be needed. | needed | {
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The NCTA is well-advised to seek funds for this purpose from the present session of Congress. | is | {
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The NCTA is well-advised to seek funds for this purpose from the present session of Congress. | seek | {
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Men need unity and they need God. | need | {
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Men need unity and they need God. | need | {
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Care must be taken neither to confuse unity with uniformity nor God with our parochial ideas about him, but with these two qualifications, the statement stands. | taken | {
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Care must be taken neither to confuse unity with uniformity nor God with our parochial ideas about him, but with these two qualifications, the statement stands. | confuse | {
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Care must be taken neither to confuse unity with uniformity nor God with our parochial ideas about him, but with these two qualifications, the statement stands. | stands | {
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The statement also points to a classic paradox : The more men turn toward God, who is not only in himself the paradigm of all unity but also the only ground on which human unity can ultimately be established, the more men splinter into groups and set themselves apart from one another. | points | {
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The statement also points to a classic paradox : The more men turn toward God, who is not only in himself the paradigm of all unity but also the only ground on which human unity can ultimately be established, the more men splinter into groups and set themselves apart from one another. | turn | {
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The statement also points to a classic paradox : The more men turn toward God, who is not only in himself the paradigm of all unity but also the only ground on which human unity can ultimately be established, the more men splinter into groups and set themselves apart from one another. | is | {
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The statement also points to a classic paradox : The more men turn toward God, who is not only in himself the paradigm of all unity but also the only ground on which human unity can ultimately be established, the more men splinter into groups and set themselves apart from one another. | established | {
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The statement also points to a classic paradox : The more men turn toward God, who is not only in himself the paradigm of all unity but also the only ground on which human unity can ultimately be established, the more men splinter into groups and set themselves apart from one another. | splinter | {
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The statement also points to a classic paradox : The more men turn toward God, who is not only in himself the paradigm of all unity but also the only ground on which human unity can ultimately be established, the more men splinter into groups and set themselves apart from one another. | set | {
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To be reminded of this we need only glance at the world map and note the extent to which religious divisions have compounded political ones, with a resultant fragmentation of the human race. | reminded | {
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To be reminded of this we need only glance at the world map and note the extent to which religious divisions have compounded political ones, with a resultant fragmentation of the human race. | glance | {
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To be reminded of this we need only glance at the world map and note the extent to which religious divisions have compounded political ones, with a resultant fragmentation of the human race. | note | {
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To be reminded of this we need only glance at the world map and note the extent to which religious divisions have compounded political ones, with a resultant fragmentation of the human race. | compounded | {
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Massacres attending the partition of India and the establishment of the State of Israel are simply recent grim evidences of the hostility such divisions can engender. | attending | {
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Massacres attending the partition of India and the establishment of the State of Israel are simply recent grim evidences of the hostility such divisions can engender. | are | {
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Massacres attending the partition of India and the establishment of the State of Israel are simply recent grim evidences of the hostility such divisions can engender. | engender | {
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The words of Cardinal Newman come forcibly to mind : `` Oh how we hate one another for the love of God ''! | come | {
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The words of Cardinal Newman come forcibly to mind : `` Oh how we hate one another for the love of God ''! | hate | {
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The source of this paradox is not difficult to identify. | is | {
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The source of this paradox is not difficult to identify. | identify | {
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It lies in institutions. | lies in | {
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Institutions require structure, form, and definition, and these in turn entail differentiation and exclusion. | require | {
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Institutions require structure, form, and definition, and these in turn entail differentiation and exclusion. | entail | {
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A completely amorphous institution would be a contradiction in terms ; to escape this fate, it must rule some things out. | be | {
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A completely amorphous institution would be a contradiction in terms ; to escape this fate, it must rule some things out. | escape | {
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A completely amorphous institution would be a contradiction in terms ; to escape this fate, it must rule some things out. | rule | {
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For every criterion which defines what something is, at the same time proclaims - implicitly if not openly - what that something is not. | defines | {
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For every criterion which defines what something is, at the same time proclaims - implicitly if not openly - what that something is not. | is | {
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For every criterion which defines what something is, at the same time proclaims - implicitly if not openly - what that something is not. | proclaims | {
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For every criterion which defines what something is, at the same time proclaims - implicitly if not openly - what that something is not. | is | {
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Some persons are so sensitive to this truth as to propose that we do away with institutions altogether ; in the present context this amounts to the advice that while being religious may have a certain justification, we ought to dispense with churches. | are | {
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Some persons are so sensitive to this truth as to propose that we do away with institutions altogether ; in the present context this amounts to the advice that while being religious may have a certain justification, we ought to dispense with churches. | propose | {
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Some persons are so sensitive to this truth as to propose that we do away with institutions altogether ; in the present context this amounts to the advice that while being religious may have a certain justification, we ought to dispense with churches. | amounts | {
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Some persons are so sensitive to this truth as to propose that we do away with institutions altogether ; in the present context this amounts to the advice that while being religious may have a certain justification, we ought to dispense with churches. | being | {
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Some persons are so sensitive to this truth as to propose that we do away with institutions altogether ; in the present context this amounts to the advice that while being religious may have a certain justification, we ought to dispense with churches. | have | {
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Some persons are so sensitive to this truth as to propose that we do away with institutions altogether ; in the present context this amounts to the advice that while being religious may have a certain justification, we ought to dispense with churches. | dispense with | {
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The suggestion is naive. | is | {
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Man is at once a gregarious animal and a form-creating being. | is | {
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Having once committed himself to an ideal which he considers worthwhile, he inevitably creates forms for its expression and institutions for its continuance. | committed | {
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Having once committed himself to an ideal which he considers worthwhile, he inevitably creates forms for its expression and institutions for its continuance. | considers | {
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Having once committed himself to an ideal which he considers worthwhile, he inevitably creates forms for its expression and institutions for its continuance. | creates | {
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