Word: accounts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many have had to suffer at the hands of a political and economic elite who have shaped decisions and never had to account for mistakes nor to suffer from injustice...
...what she seems to be asking to mean is naive, innocent. Again the face talks when the mouth reneges-her mother's face on Gloria, 30 years younger, broader, lined differently but as deeply. Even if she hadn't, in self-defense, just published an eloquent account (Good Housekeeping, January) of her own large sadness-an imprisoned son, William, 30-you'd see that her eyes and smiling mouth have long since given up attempting to conceal a sizable and only partly healed wound near the center of her life. Yet she won't talk...
...courage to hold fast to what we believe in while recognizing that at any one time our hopes are likely to be only gradually fulfilled. It is the essence of moral purposes that they appear absolute and universal. It is the essence of foreign policy to take into account the views of others who may also see their values in this manner...
TIME Correspondent David Wood teamed with Expert Orienteer Hans Jurgen Luwald to measure his own speed and map-reading skills during the meet near Boston. His account...
...refuse to be amused cannot deny what has become obvious over the years: when Wolfe concentrates solely on reporting, he is virtually peerless among contemporary journalists. In The Truest Sport: Jousting with Sam and Charlie, the longest and best piece in this collection, he gives an unforgettably tactile account of combat life on a U.S. aircraft carrier, a "heaving greasy skillet," in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1967. Those who have not been on a carrier with planes approaching may have seen such a scene in movies. Wolfe's description is better: "As the aircraft comes closer...