Word: doubted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case with many artists. She overcame or outlasted the obstacles which came across her path. During her silence she never lost faith. "I was always a writer, I never wrote myself off." More specifically she never fell prey to what she termed "the two great excuses": self doubt, or circumstance. "Some people say, 'If only I had gone to this school,' or, 'If only I hadn't gotten married...,' or even worse, 'Perhaps I was only kidding myself, I can't write.' Fortunately I never had these doubts which silenced so many others...
...Sunday night, after 6½ hours of talks in Jerusalem with Begin and senior members of his cabinet, the payoff on Carter's gamble was still in doubt. "A treaty is within our grasp," the President had told Egypt's parliament Saturday. Sadat agreed, saying that "we have had a very fruitful talk." But both leaders cautioned that some issues remained unresolved as Carter headed for Israel. Arriving there just as the Jewish Sabbath was ending, he was greeted at Ben-Gurion Airport by President Itzhak Navon and Premier Begin, who gave him a warm embrace. Said Carter: "I have good...
...those who have suffered so deeply during the last 30 years of conflict, enmity and war." This is a point that Carter has been stressing with increasing frequency. Later, in his address to Egypt's parliament, he again endorsed linkage by saying that "there can be little doubt that the two agreements reached at Camp David&$151;negotiated together and signed together?are related...
...people doubted the genuineness of Carter's motives in taking such risks, but there was also no doubt that he was sorely in need of some kind of victory. On the eve of his departure, he had sunk to his lowest point in the public-opinion polls since July 1978 (63% negative in the Harris survey), partly because voters generally believe that he is floundering in his foreign policy and has lost control of events. Said Joel Fleishman, director of Duke University's Institute for Policy Sciences and Public Affairs: "Carter needs a success. The ripest possibility...
...brief but extremely well-done scene early in the film explains the mechanics of a nuclear power plant and prepares you for the brush with Armegaddon that follows. "The China Syndrome," as Douglas, its producer, says, is in the mold of "an old-fashioned thriller," and if you ever doubt fail-safe technology or wonder about the news you get on the tube, it will scare you. But see it anyway. It's worth...