Word: answer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three days, I was totally depressed." He seriously thought of quitting. "I talked to all the people who mattered to me and they all said they'd love me no matter what I decided. The decision came back to me. I had to look within myself for the answer...
...family, and bombards government officials at all levels with letters seeking his release. According to MacBride, "The avalanche of mail is the biggest annoyance to most governments. Soon the issue is being raised at Cabinet level, and everyone is wondering whether the guy is worth all the trouble. The answer is frequently no." AI never claims responsiblity for winning its adoptees' freedom, explains Secretary-General Martin Ennals, because "no government likes to be told they are doing something under duress." Yet the group produces results: of some 16,000 prisoners aided since 1961, 10,600 have been released...
...began presenting the case of the university. He underlined immediately the importance of responding to the charge that a white male had been excluded from medical school by "reverse discrimination" favoring disadvantaged minority candidates who were, by traditional admission standards, less qualified than the white. Said Cox: "The answer which the court gives will determine, perhaps for decades, whether members of [racial] minorities are to have meaningful access to higher education." After a few minutes, Justice Byron White interrupted Cox to inquire about the adequacy of the trial record in lower courts. And then for two hours the Justices questioned...
...anyone had asked August Strindberg for his definition of hell, he would have given an implacable and desolated one-word answer-women. Or perhaps, wives...
...prisoners in Walpole who were trying to improve conditions there. It is not easy for them to get a hearing. One of them told me, "People outside don't care if a prisoner's stabbed; they just think, `So there's one less criminal." I didn't have an answer then; I was still overwhelmed by the windowless, airless rooms, the clanging metal doors, the body search and petty harassment on the way inside. Harassment not from the inmates, who did their best to make us--the outsiders--feel comfortable, but from the guards...