Word: hearded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remote town I was invited to lunch with a boy of fifteen at his home. Throughout the meal he asked questions about America: Had I heard of Muhammad Ali? Did I have a car? A wife?, and about Tunisia: Had I been to this or that place? Did I like Tunisia more than America? His younger brother was alternately trying to engage me in a game of ball and trying to elicit mistakes in Arabic from me which would make him giggle uncontrollably...
...hearing him outline his strongly held, highly moralistic view of U.S. foreign policy priorities, but they found only four occasions to applaud during his 25-minute address. While many diplomats welcomed Carter's straight talk on human rights and other matters, one Western envoy sounded a fairly widely heard caveat: "A splash of fresh air is good, but if you open your window too wide, a gale will blow through." Nevertheless, other delegates privately praised Carter's general approach. Explained one: "He apparently is prepared to take public risks for gambles that may pay off. For example...
Carter's taste for serious music comes as a minor surprise. Before they heard about his West Wing repertoire, most Washingtonians were only aware of Carter's predilections for Bob Dylan and the Allman Brothers...
Died. Fannie Lou Hamer, 60, former Mississippi sharecropper who became a leader in the civil rights movement; of cancer; in Mound Bayou, Miss. At a Baptist rally in 1962, Mrs. Hamer heard civil rights workers urge blacks to use their ballots. "I never knew we could vote before," she later recalled. "Nobody ever told us." Two years later she electrified the Democratic National Convention with her graphic tales of being brutally beaten by police while trying to register black voters. She continued to organize voters, unions and farm cooperatives, eventually helping to integrate the Mississippi Democratic Party...
...relevant then the most blatant lie is heard by the jury," he added...