Word: existing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Israel has always insisted that any West Bank-Gaza entity must exist in some kind of political and economic federation with Jordan. The Israelis have a legitimate security worry about having a new confrontation state on their borders, dominated by the hated P.L.O. They are also mildly concerned about the threat of 2 million exiled Palestinians coming to join a million kinsmen who live in the West Bank and Gaza...
...think that in a country like ours, with its many affluent families and law-abiding citizens, such conditions are allowed to exist! Our elderly citizens, innocent victims of inflation and the growing decadence of society, are being continuously subjected to abuse...
...CIVIL LIBERTIES. An Attorney General has to stand up against other parts of the Government, which will not have the same interest in civil liberties or the law. I feel very uneasy looking at past history and thinking of the pressures that I know exist-and what the future will be like-unless we can get some legislation. There ought to be legislation on electronic surveillance. We have spent an enormous amount of time in the department trying to provide proper safeguards for electronic surveillance, and I think we have. I am not satisfied to say that civil liberty...
...Buddy Holly's "Rock Around the Clock." The Hustle, on the other hand, has a limited future in Peru. The need which the Hustle filled in the States for a dance in which the partners touch, a dance with complicated variations on a single step, simply does not exist here. The cumbia, the parrandera, the marinera all fit the bill and all are actively danced; even, on occasion, the tango. As the party progresses, however, dancers settle into what is most familiar--the wiggling shoulders, swinging arms, smooth steps, and sideward swaying of the hips that characterize the cumbia...
...boys didn't exist, I should have to invent them," writes British Novelist Christopher Isherwood, setting the tone for his new book Christopher and His Kind 1929-1939 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Debunking impressions that his interest in politics drew him to pre-World War II Germany, Isherwood reveals that he was propelled by a tip from his sometime lover and collaborator W.H. Auden about the boy bars in Berlin. Between affairs, he met Jean Ross, the prototype for his fictional Sally Bowles, and wrote of her escapades in Goodbye to Berlin. Sally turns out to be somewhat less vulnerable...