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Word: acceptible (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Archeologists came to accept that Vikings traveled to North America only after material evidence--artifacts such as tools and pottery--and settlement ruins were found in Nova Scotia. But Fell's book includes no hard archeological evidence that has not either been declared a fraud by professional archeologists, established as something other than what Fell says it is, or been considered in the context of a more plausible hypothesis than the one Fell constructs...

Author: By Peter Frawley, | Title: Barry Fell and His Big Idea: Wherein a Harvard Zoology Professor Tells the Tale Of All the Folks Who Got Here Before Columbus | 2/15/1977 | See Source »

...positions have suddenly been reversed. Arafat is in difficulty because his Palestinian forces became too deeply involved in Lebanon's civil war -and on the losing side. Syria, Egypt and Saudi Arabia are privately pressuring the P.L.O. to end the fight against Israel and to accept the West Bank-Gaza state. Hussein figures prominently in these arguments. Last month he was in Aswan at Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's invitation to discuss the proposed linkage with the Palestinians, and before that in Damascus for similar talks with President Hafez Assad. Says one political observer in Amman: "The moderates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JORDAN: Easier Lies the Hashemite Head | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

...have always said we are ready for a dialogue and we have indicated that we are willing to discuss any topic-with the exclusion of anything that might remotely suggest that we intend to tolerate or accept the conditions that contributed to the 1970 disaster here in Jordan. What happened between 1967 and 1970 is something no one here can tolerate in any form or permit to come back. It is not a question of Jordanians v. Palestinians, but a question of chaos and anarchy against law-and-order. We are not prepared to go through that experience again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Time to Take a Gamble | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

...trying to find out. Michigan Congressman Charles Diggs told Conyers that "now he understands who he is; now he understands what his father used to talk about." Added Conyers: "You can't begin to do anything in life until you cai. own up to your blackness and accept yourself in your blackness and others as they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHY 'ROOTS' HIT HOME | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

Final statistics are not yet available because some students have not yet decided to accept their transfers, Eleanor C. Marshall, assistant to the deans for housing, said yesterday. About 12 students moved from River Houses to the Quad,. Marshall said...

Author: By Deborah Gelin, | Title: Quad Students Move as Freeze Ends | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

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