Word: foe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After his speech, Ford motioned to his vanquished foe in the guest galleries to join him and Betty on the podium. When Reagan and Nancy had entered the hall earlier to a resounding ovation, there were rhythmic cries of "Speech! Speech! Speech!" Invited to the podium by Chairman Rhodes, Reagan initially declined. "This is someone else's night," he said to friends. But now he responded to Ford's beckoning. As he moved through the packed arena with Nancy, then took the microphone at Ford's bidding, the eyes of many delegates shimmered with tears...
...that its intervention in Lebanon was not aimed at Israel, Jerusalem relaxed and began to enjoy the situation. Israeli officials now quietly applaud Syrian President Hafez Assad's aims in Lebanon as modest and constructive; a year ago he was routinely described in Israel as a fanatical foe...
...popular leader Enrico Berlinguer (TIME cover, June 14)-so worried Western leaders that Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had repeatedly warned Italians against voting Communists into government. Last week Kissinger called the results a standoff and predicted another election within a year. The Vatican, Berlinguer's other relentless foe, was just as concerned. Pope Paul VI last week undertook the revitalization of Catholic lay organizations; their 5 million members were last used politically in the church's anti-Communist battles of the Cold War years...
...been winning the battle against their deadliest enemy. Two weeks ago, India's legislators decided it was time to redress the balance. They choked off the nation's lucrative snake-hunting business, hoping to restore the old level of conflict between the rat and its most slithery foe...
Died. Morris L. Ernst, 87, civil liberties and labor lawyer who served as an adviser to U.S. Presidents; in New York City. Ernst had a passion for causes, and very few were lost. An ebullient foe of censorship, he broke down the ban on James Joyce's Ulysses. He served as counsel to the American Newspaper Guild and the American Civil Liberties Union; he defended Communists and Frank Costello, while deploring both. Concerned in later life that too many restraints had been removed, he declared that he would not want "to live in a society without limits to freedom...