Word: cepted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another Western nation forced to ac cept a reduced vision of its importance is Britain, which managed to make the best of it by agreeing with Malcolm Muggeridge that second-rate powers had "great fun." Britain's new devotion to fun produced Europe's most vigorous theater, practically a new age in popular music and a pop scene that has been emulated the world over. By contrast, the French seem hesitant, even fearful about tapping those resources of the imagination and intellect that once struck the rest of the world as being virtually inexhaustible. They have discovered...
...Israel: "I continue to be opposed to direct talks with the Israelis. I am indeed familiar with their argument thats the only way to achieve peace is to sit down with the Arabs at the conference table. But what is there to talk about? If they refuse to ac cept the conditions contained in the November 22nd [U.N.] resolution, what can be the basis of direct negotiations? No, I am afraid the Israelis are more interested in holding on to their occupied territories than they are in finding a solution. The Israeli demand for face-to-face talks seems...
...dummy portico, modeled after the entrance to the White House, was erected in front of the amphitheatre's main door to block the aim of any rifleman. Even the airspace up to an altitude of 2,500 ft. above the convention site was banned to all traffic ex cept official planes and helicopters...
After nearly a month of negotiations, the highly publicized battle over William Manchester's The Death of a President was settled last weekend ex cept for the tidying up of the final legal formalities. The agreement gave Harper & Row clearance to publish the controversial book on schedule in April -with nothing in it that Jacqueline Kennedy wanted...
...scene was worthy of Daumier's pen. Discreetly dressed bourgeois bid ders hid all signs of buying fever, ex cept for a lady who offered $1,600 for a charcoal drawing, Buffoon and His Monkey, in a Landscape, then protested that she did not mean to get that one. The auctioneer rebuked her: "Madame, that's impossible. You've been bidding for five minutes and the object is right in front of you. I regret it, but it's yours...