Word: endless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...find some simplistic solutions-SALT, détente and others-to the problem. But there is no easy or quick substitute for being prepared to confront the Russians when their aggressiveness creeps into areas we consider vital." Concluded Goodpaster: "You are right. This may be a kind of endless task. Thus we should not hold out the hope to the American people that the military threat from the Soviet Union is likely to fade...
...picture showing Moro in captivity, was the terrorists' way of dealing with the man whom they accused of "criminal counterrevolution." Other public officials who have been similarly kidnaped in the past have also been subjected to these "trials," which consisted largely of forcing the victims to endure endless Marxist diatribes before they were released...
What unifies the Palestinians most of all, however, is the endless battle against Israel. By now the fight has become almost a mockery of itself: the typical Palestinian longing for the orange groves of Jaffa has become ludicrous in a time when Jaffa itself has disappeared before the encroachments of Jewish Tel Aviv, and whatever orange groves remain are almost blotted out by industrial development. But the Palestinian dream has been kept alive, thanks to sophisticated political work by Arafat and other Palestinian leaders and the willingness of Arab governments to support (however grudgingly) a nearly lost cause...
...publicity blitz that includes a spectacular death act in Madison Square Garden. The smashing of an atom is projected as a blinding light show. A Kalki/Kelly double and the horse he rode in on are blown to shreds, an event that tens of millions get to examine in endless TV replays. It is, notes an L.A. viewer, "the biggest thing that's hit the Hollywood Hills since what's-his-name walked on the moon...
...from warm and cordial to very rocky. One or another of my less tolerable uncles always seems to descend on us for days, leaving only after communication between him and my father has degenerated to muttered threats and growling. From all these relatives, good and bad, there come the endless rounds of the same questions. Why do you go to Harvard? Isn't it Radcliffe? Do you really live in co-ed dorms and is it fun? Yes, it is really. And to be perfectly honest, I don't mind the litany half as much as coming back to school...