Word: graciously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...order to preserve the show of unity, Gaddafi permitted the meeting to take place, but he proved a less than gracious host. According to Egyptian newspapers, he showed his displeasure by sending in a huffy note declaring that, "I will not have Libya tarnished by having an announcement on lifting the oil embargo against the U.S. issued in Tripoli." Reportedly, the ministers nevertheless reached a compromise proposed by Algeria: the embargo will be lifted soon, but that decision will be reviewed in two months. If, in the Arab view, the U.S. has not kept up sufficient pressure on Israel...
...time (1853) this sonata was a radical work. Its innovative harmonies and grandiose scope threatened and bewildered earlier Romantics who concentrated on shorter lyrical forms. However, Wagner, in a letter to Liszt, wrote, "The sonata is beautiful beyond all expression, great, gracious, profound, noble, sublime like yourself...
...Communist leaders of Soviet Russia are outraged by comparisons between Stalinist Russia and Hitlerite Germany made by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn. They condemn Solzhenitsyn for informing the free world that the Government of Imperial Russia was "liberal" and "loving" toward the people and that Hitlerites were "gracious" and "merciful" both to the Russians and the peoples of Eastern Europe, which the West failed to protect from the Soviet occupation...
...companion editorial said, "the dismissal of such a highly respected, competent, dedicated, and gracious Chinese teacher as Mrs. Mao and the possible hiring of a less-experienced teacher...would constitute a drastic step backwards for the Chinese program...
...ticked off some of the Russian press's misrepresentations of Gulag. "I am alleged to have written that 'Hitler's Nazis were gracious and merciful to enslaved peoples.' All lies, Pravda comrades! Point out the exact pages! Tass says that in my autobiography I admitted my hatred of the Soviet system and people. My autobiography was published by the Nobel Foundation in 1970. It is available for the whole world to see how insolently Tass lies...