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"A language is a contract under which there is a general, although unconscious, agreement as to where words are moving. To use a word in a fashion that impedes communication with others is therefore a foul... If a significant proportion of the people speaking a language are using a word in a way that dictionaries tend not to mention, it means that the word is moving..."

"It was in the Congo that the United States and the Soviet Union first faced off in a theater far from either homeland, transforming the Cold War, until then first and foremost a European affair, into a truly global struggle."