Word: creation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demand for a strong civil rights plank in the party platform. "The time has arrived," he told the convention, "for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadow of states' rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights." The plank was adopted, provoking the creation of the Dixiecrat Party, which threatened to cut deeply into the Democrats' normally heavy Southern vote. Defeat seemed assured for the Democratic nominee, Harry Truman. But Truman won, and so did Humphrey, who was running for the U.S. Senate...
...meantime, the Shah of Iran visited Sadat in an effort to find a way to invite King Hussein's participation. The Shah also favors the creation of an autonomous West Bank-Gaza region under Jordanian sovereignty. He then flew to Riyadh for talks with Saudi Arabian leaders. The Saudis share the Shah's desire for a settlement, though they have a longstanding suspicion of the Iranians and are privately uneasy about the possibility of an Iranian-Israeli-Egyptian axis emerging after an eventual peace settlement...
...Israel's right to exist. It also includes such phrases as "secure and recognized borders" (which the Arabs take to mean that Israel must withdraw from the occupied territories) and "refugee problem" (which, to Israel, means that the Palestinian problem should be solved by resettlement rather than by creation of a political state...
...reality of his job as a baker, he fouls up the cake decorator, spewing streams of sticky icing in an imbecillic lapstick scene a la Laurel and Hardy. This, instead of the first scene, in an indicator of the usual level of entertainment in Wilder's latest creation...
Langer combined the study of history with its creation, and he achieved distinction in both. Born the son of poor German immigrants in South Boston, Langer was a self-made man who served as Coolidge professor from 1936 until his retirement in 1964. During those years he established an international reputation, both as a scholar of European and Middle Eastern history, and as an expert in military intelligence...