Word: accounts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President laughed about Hood's boys at last getting a hot breakfast at Antietam when they were interrupted by a Union charge; they were so mad that they stopped the superior Yankee force in its tracks. Carter was tickled by the account of how the cannons at Antietam stirred up the hives of bees kept by the farmers. One Pennsylvania regiment had 127 bee stings. The President leaned on the bridge over Antietam Creek where General Burnside with four divisions had been stalled for hours by Robert Toombs with a few hundred of those beloved Georgian sharpshooters...
...Jews are tormented by the past, troubled by the present and fearful of the future. After 2,000 years of persecution, we have every right to these feelings. They were instilled in us by the so-called Western civilization. After reading your biased account, my fears for Jewry and Israel are greater than before...
...disturbance, when preferences have always been given to "those possessed of athletic skills, to the affluent who may bestow their largesse on the institutions, and to those having connections with celebrities, the famous and the powerful." He concluded: "In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race...
TIME herewith offers a proposal for resolving the Palestinian problem that takes into account both Israeli fears and Arab aspirations. The plan, which draws on the views of experts in the U.S., Israel and Egypt, rests on three assumptions. One is that continuing Israeli rule over the West Bank and Gaza, with their overwhelmingly Arab populations, would prove impossible in the long run. The second is that substituting an imposed Jordanian and/or Egyptian sovereignty over the area, except during a brief transition period, would equally frustrate Palestinian nationalist yearnings, and thus preclude a genuine Middle East peace. The third...
...appear half buried in the ground, can be traced to Degas's bronzes. The softly modeled, bulbous heads with their almost genital mouths come straight out of Picasso in the early '30s, as does the sense of cubist rotation; and so forth. But such a catalogue would not take account of Frank's originality...