Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SWEET CHARITY. Everyone involved in this project has obviously put a lot of effort into it, most of which goes to waste. Shirley MacLaine plays a pixilated dance-hall hostess-which may relieve the tedium for some viewers...
Talking Points. As the preconference meetings continued, details of the U.S. "talking points" began to appear. Perhaps the most important of the points would be an effort to win full four-power agreement on the implementation of the November 1967 Security Council resolution, which postulated mutual recognition of sovereignty and Israeli withdrawal from areas conquered in the Six-Day War. Israel, according to the latest U.S. suggestion, would retain Syria's Gobn Heights and Arab Jerusalem, although Jordan would have certain rights in its former sector. The U.S. also envisages the following...
...years since a regime was imposed upon us utterly contrary to the ideals for which our world-and so magnificently our people-fought in the last world war. It is a state of enforced torpor in which all the intellectual values that we have succeeded, with toil and effort, in keeping alive are being submerged in a swamp, in stagnant waters...
...unwarranted extremes." He argued that the previous decision emphasized interrogations in the station house because the "isolation and unfamiliar surroundings" there created special pressures for the accused. Orozco's bedroom, White insisted, could hardly be considered unfamiliar to him. Moreover, the majority had made no effort to demonstrate that any of the psychological pressures in Miranda were present in Orozco's case...
...painter. She builds her camels on wood and steel armatures, stuffs them with polyurethane, covers them with goat hair or sheep's wool tinted with brown oil paint. She adds carefully molded toes and ears of cast acrylic, and voild!-the result makes a taxidermist's liveliest effort look damnably dead...