Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political divorces can be messy, Talmadge soon learned, as have others -former Governor Marvin Mandel of Maryland, Governor George Wallace of Alabama and Senator Edward Brooke of Massachusetts.* Last August, Talmadge revealed in a deposition that it had long been his practice to accept pocket money, clothing and lodging from friends. In fact, he had written only one check for cash in six years. Says he: "Wherever I go, people entertain me, lodge me, give me small amounts of money. My out-of-pocket expenses come from donations friends give me-$5, a $10 bill, sometimes...
...pattern of the proceedings was much the same as in the previous trials. Like Shcharansky, Alexander Ginzburg and Viktoras Petkus, Lukyanenko refused to make a public confession, despite seven months of pretrial interrogation. Instead, he went on a hunger strike when the summary four-day trial began, refused to accept a court-appointed attorney, and conducted his own defense. Paying heavily for his defiance, he was sentenced to the maximum under the law: ten years of hard labor in a concentration camp and five years of Siberian exile. Shcharansky had received 13 years, without a term of exile...
...that I did not act out these rebellious adolescent postures I had inside of me until 1970. They were symbols to me but they were running parallel to my creative sense, I wasn't being in any way untruthful to myself so I was able to allow myself to accept the trapping of that role--things I wanted--I wanted my symbols to make me different. That's what those clothes and that hair was all about then. It was a further way of separating yourself from your parents--or your metaphorical parents--and in my case my metaphorical parent...
...trial I have not left the iron fence around the courthouse. I faced a thick wall of KGB and militia officials in the hope of catching sight of my child from afar. All these days I could hear your sincere authoritative voice in support of an innocent man. Accept, Mr. President, our deep and sincere gratitude...
...Washington, Carter Administration officials were pleased with the new round of contacts. "It would have been inconceivable a year ago," observed a State Department Middle East expert of Sadat's meeting with Peres, "yet now we accept such talks between Israel and Egypt with nonchalance." American officials also noted that both sides had favorable words about certain aspects of a four-point plan on the Middle East proposed by former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt and Austrian Chancellor Kreisky...