Word: cordiale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Changing Lives. Key 73's most significant accomplishment, apart from the distribution of 50 million Bibles or scriptural excerpts, was its promotion of new kinds of interdenominational evangelism. There were many cordial meetings among such various participants as Southern Baptists, Roman Catholics and Salvation Army members and among WASPS, blacks and Puerto Ricans. Evangelicals were pleased that some Protestant liberals were again emphasizing "the need for changing individual lives...
...Arabia for his second meeting in five weeks with King Feisal on the question of Arab oil for the U.S. From there his blue and white jet flew on to Damascus for the first visit in two decades of a U.S. Secretary of State to Syria. Kissinger had a cordial meeting with President Hafez Assad, but their conversations ended in a diplomatic impasse. Assad refused to join Jordan and Egypt in a united front of Arab combatants at the talks until Israel promised to return occupied land...
...middle class. The movie is predictable but energetic. The jokes are television sitcom, but they are about topics-Africa, black militancy-that up to now have been virtually smothered in sanctimony and good will. It is refreshing to have them treated, as they are here, with a little cordial disrespect. Director Oscar Williams emphasizes the broadness and artificiality of the material and encourages his actors to play big. Clarice Taylor, as a humiliated housewife, and Leonard Jackson, as her aggressively bourgeois husband, respond with enthusiasm...
...have traditionally sided with the nation that exerted the greatest influence in the region. During World War II, they first supported the Japanese, then the Allies. Now, with the U.S. in the process of reducing its military presence in Southeast Asia, the pragmatic Thais are expected to seek more cordial relations with China...
NELSON ROCKEFELLER, 65. An old G.O.P. rival, he is now a fairly cordial supporter of Nixon's, and as four-term Governor of New York he ranks among the nation's most experienced politicians. Main drawback: despite his age. Rocky reportedly still covets the presidency and might thus start acting on his own as soon as he was confirmed...