Word: hearded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...awaited Begin's reaction. To everyone's surprise, the Israeli seemed much impressed. He studied the single-page draft for several minutes and then said he would "consider these proposals seriously." The Americans looked at each other in astonishment. Said one later: "It was the best news we had heard in a long time." Said another: "We had absolutely no rational reason to presume that Begin would be receptive...
...conclude, Mr. President, with a statement of my own views on the specific question of divestiture. I have heard it said that divestiture is but a gesture, an empty statement. Gestures are not to be dismissed as merely symbolic. We live by symbols and the symbolic value of this university's collective gestures is orders of magnitude greater than the value of individual gestures we might make. We can choose, Mr. President, collective silence that implies either collective consent or collective indifference. Or we can take a stand that publicizes our collective opposition to the institutional racism of apartheid. Stephen...
...presently have available evidence that would enable me to judge whether or not former Senator Clark's findings are correct, nor perhaps do more than 90 per cent of those who heard Professor Nolan at the Faculty meeting and on the live radio broadcast of that meeting. This being the case, it is misleading for Professor Nolan to have given this document more standing than it deserves, more standing than its author claims for it. Arthur Maass Professor of Government
...badly either. His presents included several jewel-studded golden swords. The Prince, however, provided the one awkward moment on an otherwise triumphal tour. At the end of a sightseeing tour in Oman, he observed his car being driven away empty, and loudly uttered an obscenity rarely heard from royal lips...
Sitting on top of its Nielsens, ABC, for its part, claims to have hardly heard of the sweeps. "Our point of view has always been to schedule the network from the start of the season until the end of the season," says Network President Fred Pierce, 45, "not necessarily for any particular period. Our average for the entire season will be the same as it is in any of the so-called sweeps periods that everybody writes about." Like General Motors, which sets prices for the automobile industry, ABC now sets the tone for commercial television; it lays...