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Word: acceptable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Baker's intention to work against an unamended treaty-and the Soviet promise to accept no amendments-left the treaty's fate largely in the hands of Senate Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd, who this week will spend four days in the Soviet Union talking with Kremlin officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Senate and the Soviets | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

...most damaging revelations of all concern Texan John Connally, whom Nixon and his aides consulted frequently even after he resigned in 1971 as Secretary of the Treasury. Leon Jaworski has reported that Connally suggested to Haig's predecessor, H.R. Haldeman, that John Mitchell should be persuaded to accept all the blame for Watergate. Republican enemies of Connally point to a tape played during his 1975 trial on charges of accepting money from milk producers in return for higher price supports. Though hard to decipher, it seemed to record Connally and Nixon discussing a large contribution from oilmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Damaging Tales | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

Abron said Black Panther Party members do not mind working with a former Harvard professor. "There's no problem--he's a very beautiful person. We in the party accept people for whatever they are," she said...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Harvard Administrators Say Energy Costs Will Soon Soar | 7/6/1979 | See Source »

Abron said Black Panther Party members do not mind working with a former Harvard professor. "There's no problem--he's a very beautiful person. We in the party accept people for whatever they are," she said...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Sociobiology Pioneer Joins Black Panthers | 7/6/1979 | See Source »

...belief is held most of all by those who are losing. The leader can say more easily, 'I make errors.' His stature is evident to his opponent, the spectators, and himself. When one is losing, he fears his power may be not at all evident. To accept his errors, then, may be an admission that he's not really so good ... The loser must therefore proclaim his surprise at his error with as many histrionics as the audience will bear." In contradiction to what one may feel during the heat of a match, the author suggests that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

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