Word: aspect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Whether or not Alger Hiss was indeed a member of the Communist Party, for all intents and purposes he behaved as either a dedicated Communist or a strong sympathizer, which is a perfectly honorable thing to do. What intellectual in the 1930s was not involved in one or another aspect of radical activity? I don't, in any sense, in my book make any effort to red-bait the beliefs of people at the time...
...reporters approached each aspect of the election with a horse race philosophy--that it was a competition to be won or lost," DeFrank said...
Leadership that involves brute force is a very real, often too real, aspect of human society, and deserves as much, if not more investigation as the more elegant maneuvering of your gentle crew...
...MOST INTERESTING aspect of these arrangements is that the U.S. intelligence services' cooperation with foreign counterparts has generally taken the shape of agreements permitting agents to operate freely in each other's countries. The objects of concern are not only the activities of one's own citizens abroad, but the conduct of governments supposedly regarded as allies. While this sort of concern seems justified given the sort of allies American administrations have been inclined to choose, it is indicative of the perversity of American foreign relations. Not only has the United States chosen allies that it cannot trust...
...firing squad that would extinguish the life of Murderer Gary Mark Gilmore, 35. Reporters shouted objections when Warden Smith announced at a press conference that state law did not permit journalists to witness the execution, scheduled at 8 a.m., Nov. 15. But the most macabre aspect of the event was that it was Gilmore, insisting he wanted to die "like a man," who had gone to court to plead for his execution...