Word: indirectly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Founded by Dead Sea Scrolls Archaeologist Yigal Yadin, Israel's onetime Chief of Staff, the party has an imposing roster of intellectuals and former generals on its slate. Although voters fancy Yadin's attacks on corruption and demands for reforms in Israel's complex, indirect election system, many are puzzled by the new party's lack of ideological focus. Even so, pollsters predict that the D.M.C. could hold the balance of power in the new Knesset...
...portray realistically. At the trial before the Sanhedrin, the High Priest Caiaphas asks Jesus if he is indeed "the Messiah, the Son of the Living God." Jesus replies flatly, "I am," an act of blasphemy that leads directly to his execution. Zeffirelli could have used Christ's indirect answer in Matthew and Luke: "You have said so," but he preferred the direct statement from Mark...
...indirect acknowledgment that NBC has practiced sex discrimination, some $1.6 million in raises and back pay will go to former and present employees The rest of the money will go for legal fees and a staff to monitor compliance with the settlement. NBC also agreed to move women into 15% ol its high-level jobs...
...Gandhi angrily struck back at her erstwhile Communist friends. In a speech delivered before a cheering audience of senior Congress Party leaders in New Delhi, she denounced the C.P.I, and called its assault on Sanjay an indirect attack on her ("He is small fry"). The Communists, she declared, "say they support me, but there can be no greater insult than to say that I could be influenced by reactionaries or by anyone else." Mrs. Gandhi's "exposure" of the Communists evoked a chorus of support from other Congress members, who accused the Communists of "betrayal of the people...
...indirect answers suggest not. When taking up these works, he treats O'Hara and Quinlan like any other "types." "In Touch of Evil, I was all on the side of Charlton Heston," he says. (Heston plays the Mexican sleuth who gets the goods on Quinlan). Besides, he adds, "I'm someone who likes to look...