Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...woman the Captain loves is dying of cancer in this season. In her eighth decade she has learned to accept life in its small and most cherishable doses: the devotion of her daughter; a few close friends; the animals she hovers over because she realized long ago that she was one of them. Around her country cottage, clouds like barrels rolled in pitch inflate the sky, while at his troubled and uncomfortable distance Captain Midlife stammers consolations wholly unnecessary for such a woman. He beats about preparing for her death. She calmly prepares for Christmas and pokes the fire...
...there and be somebody I'm not and feel comfortable doing it. It's kind of like an escape. That sounds Hallmarkish -- I mean, totally generic. But I can get up there and be Lili von Shtupp in garters and be totally dragged out and say, 'Here I am, accept me.' And they do, they do accept me. I got third place with that act, and that was only because there were these two white girls ahead of me in housecoats and horn- rimmed glasses singing Respect, and they were great...
Although authorities had massed overwhelming firepower to use if the Cubans began harming hostages at either facility, their best weapons proved to be mediators trusted by the Cubans, who worked with federal officials in tedious, often frustrating negotiations. In the Atlanta prison, the Cubans voted to accept a two-page, eight-point pact. When some 200 hard-liners still rejected the deal as inadequate, the majority needed "all of our effort and all of our force," as one detainee put it, to overcome their resistance. Approved in advance by Attorney General Edwin Meese, the agreement will apply...
Haig and other arms-control advocates had two reasons for seeking a deal that would reduce missiles in Europe rather than eliminate them entirely: 1) such an outcome seemed realistic and "negotiable," in that the Soviets might accept it; 2) leaving a few missiles in place would reinforce the credibility of the U.S. promise to defend its allies in the event of a Soviet attack...
...Europe in late 1983. The Soviet gerontocracy had painted itself into a corner, leaving no alternative but to walk out in Geneva. There was a widespread assumption in the West, encouraged by Washington, that the battle was over. The U.S. and NATO had won. The Soviets now had to accept the new reality of modern American missiles on European territory...