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Word: acted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brezhnev was very attentive. He was listening and alert." Byrd cautioned Brezhnev | against inflammatory rhetoric. "The Senate will not be intimidated," he said. "It will not act out of fear. It will not act in haste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: From Russia with Hope | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...producing country; it has more oil than Mexico. But does the U.S. sell its oil at a lower price? We have to link our price to the price of OPEC because otherwise we will only get the negative impact of the oil hike and not the positive effects. We act accordingly. But what Mexico does is to stay out of the speculative spot market. Our sales respect the price that has been fixed. We hate speculation. Mexico is not a country that speculates and it never will speculate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: An Interview with L | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...Justice Department is also investigating. It could bring criminal charges against the company and some officers for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and U.S. securities laws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A Bitter Payoff at ISC | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

When Soviet couples do make love, says Stern, the union too often is quick, mechanical, riddled with shame and obviously unsatisfying. He writes: "The typical sex act is best done in the dark of night, under the bedclothes, and with the eyes closed." Foreplay, he says, is virtually unheard of. Typically, the female assumes what the Russians call the crayfish position with head and knees touching the bed. Her partner penetrates from the rear, and usually dismounts quickly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Sex in the Kremlin's Shadow | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...Soviet men, holding back an ejaculation to satisfy the woman is considered an immoral act with grave physical and psychological consequences. As a result, says Stern, orgasm is "an almost exclusively masculine privilege." Says Stern, "Unaware that the woman possesses any erogenous zones, the man usually imagines that as soon as his penis penetrates her vagina, the woman will be overcome with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Sex in the Kremlin's Shadow | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

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