Word: bindings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...death had found common cause in the struggle to save three lives. The magic and mystery of space exploration, the realization that James Lovell, Fred Haise and John Swigert were not simply three Americans on a scientific mission but also humanity's envoys to the future, had served to bind men and nations in a rare moment of unity...
Instead, we will march from Post Office Square today at 3 p.m. to the Berkeley Police Station. We will march because we understand that the state will not free Bobby Scale, that it will continue to bind and gag and starve black people in this country until enough people decide that they are willing to do anything to stop it. But we will also march because we understand that, in a real sense, we do not yet know about racism, and that only by fighting it can we learn what it is that we are fighting...
...seem to be in a bind...
Nixon Doctrine. The nation's developing foreign policy is another factor. Though it does not necessarily bind future administrations, the "Nixon Doctrine" declares that the U.S. will support its allies with air power, money and equipment. But it also says that, except in Europe, the U.S. will be slower and less likely to intervene on the ground in local emergencies than it was in Lebanon or the Dominican Republic. The National Security Council's still-secret outline of future American strategy, NSSM-3, sees the U.S. ultimately as a Pacific power only...
...petitioners as "renegades who have long been known for their Zionist views." Later, 21 other Jews scathingiy noted in an open letter to the 52: "Unlike you, we are not Jews only because this detail is noted on our identification cards. We deeply treasure the indissoluble ties that bind us to Jews of all countries...