Word: offer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...against war, racism and poverty, they expouse concerns which are basic to our existence. Our task becomes that of channeling their convictions into constructive action. As one who has sat in the chair for 25 years, I contend that the opportunities of the hour far outweigh its sacrifices and offer an exciting challenge unequaled in the past...
...this year, hopeful of improving his shaky political position, he did take over IPC's La Brea y Pariñas oilfield. The deal negotiated with the company was hardly the usual sort of expropriation, and Belaúnde's opponents later charged that it did not offer sizable advantage to the country. Among other things, the company-long seen by Peruvians as an ogreish exploiter-was given new mandates to expand its activities and a $144 million tax write...
...property damage coverage. The congregation has failed to find a new underwriter. Westchester Fire Insurance Co. of New York dropped $256,000 worth of policies on the Unitarian Church of the Mediator in Providence, R.I., after the company learned that the congregation intended to offer sanctuary to draft resisters (it did, in fact, shelter two in June...
...convicted of a Mann Act charge, he jumps bail and flees to Europe. A hounded exile, he drifts from country to country, reaching a kind of symbolic degradation when he shuffles through the role of Uncle Tom in a Budapest cafe and is booed. Still, he rejects a standing offer to throw the championship fight in return for the commutation of his jail sentence. Broody, badgered and in a kind of psychic agony, he finally turns on his white woman as the symbol of all his woes and throws her out. In a sequence of tear-jerking melodrama rather than...
...seems to have mellowed, even deepened him. "The new Nixon had finally acquired some of the dignity of the old athlete and the old con -he had taken punishment, he knew the detailed schedule of pain in a real loss, there was an attentiveness in his eyes which gave offer of some knowledge of the abyss, even the kind of gentleness which ex-drunkards attain after years...