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Word: freedom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Less immune, my foot! I agree with President Carter's decision to sign the bill that will grant only ambassadors, attaches and other high-ranking embassy officials and their families total immunity, but I still think this part of the diplomatic community has too much freedom. Why should a foreign diplomat in the U.S. be free to do things that a citizen of the U.S. cannot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 6, 1978 | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...abstract concepts to mull over at our will and convenience. As we flounder from crisis to crisis during our youth, many of us imagine ourselves trapped by the self-images we have built up; we then seek physical escape, metamorphosis, new friends and intimates--anything, in short, that promises freedom from this internalized jail cell. But we often lose sight of one fundamental truth behind this search for personal redefinition--that it is a process we enter into on a voluntary basis, often on our own terms. We can pull out of this mind game at any moment, change...

Author: By Joe Contreras, | Title: Busted at the Border | 11/4/1978 | See Source »

Meanwhile a strike by 37,000 oil refinery workers cut Iran's oil export flow by more than half. The oil workers' demands include more money and freedom for political prisoners...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Iran Will Release Prisoners In Apparent Reaction to Protests | 11/2/1978 | See Source »

...doing overt freedom fighting anymore," Margaret Bush Wilson, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), said yesterday at the Law School...

Author: By Joseph T. Scarry, | Title: NAACP Leader Outlines Its New Role | 10/31/1978 | See Source »

...private institution to choose for itself what its course will be, in keeping with the law of the land, is essential to its nature and purpose, and we must be constantly wary of governmental intrusion and of not asking for or accepting more. We must retain our freedom of expression and of purpose...

Author: By A. BARTLETT Giamatti, | Title: The Role of a University | 10/31/1978 | See Source »

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