Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have endorsed the Humphrey-Hawkins full-employment bill and national health insurance, but you talk of "lowering our expectations." Isn't there a conflict...
...recognizing the depth of that feeling. Former Defense Minister Moshe Dayan admitted in an interview with the newspaper Ha 'aretz that only genuine unrest, rather than terrorist agitation, could account for the demonstrations. He suggested that Israeli soldiers stay out of West Bank cities to avoid provoking conflict. "West Bank residents should be allowed to live their lives," he said. "If they want, then let them demonstrate and wave Palestinian flags." But Dayan added a chilling corollary: Arab mayors should be warned that if their towns exploded again, they would be placed under a blanket interdiction. It would...
...early sixties. Like many exiles, he supported Castro at the beginning of the revolution; for three years he as a cultural official in the revolutionary government, a founder of its Film Institute, and director of a literary magazine, Lunes de Revolucion, that was closed down in 1961. After conflict over a film that was not funded because its theme was "decadent," he left the island on a diplomatic mission, never to return. Though he is too idiosyncratic for any political group to trust him, the prestige of his first novel, Three Trapped Tigers, has given him authority as a spokesman...
Lack of wind and a cautious race committee sent the ICYRA Dinghy Championships (Nationals) into an extra day this week, forcing the Harvard sailing team to withdraw early because of a conflict with the exam schedule...
...course of Columbus for his 1943 Admiral of the Ocean Sea, which won the first of his two Pulitzer Prizes; in World War II he served on a dozen ships (he retired a rear admiral), collecting information for his 15-volume account of U.S. naval operations in that conflict. Critics also acclaimed his two-volume The European Discovery of America, a work he had yearned to do all his life but did not complete until...