Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Delegates of smaller states will undoubtedly insist that Belgrade '77 take up particular causes dear to their hearts. Switzerland, for example, pressed the case for disarmament; Yugoslavia is expected to complain about the plight of a Slovene minority in Austria; Portugal raised the problem of its migrant "guest workers" in industrialized northern Europe. "Indeed, there are many more issues involved here than human rights, and many more countries present than the two superpowers," the lone delegate from the tiny duchy of Luxembourg remarked proudly. "Here there are a lot more of us than of them...
...simply say, "Well, I'm sorry." The direct translation into English sounds a little bit callous, but I only meant to say that I was neutral. I feel sorry for any person's death. But you understand, I'm not emotionally involved; I was not a particular supporter of Mr. Biko. I knew who he was, of course, and the record of his organization. But, personally, I didn't know the late Mr. Biko from a bar of soap. I think that [police] judgment may have been at fault. With a big administration, it is quite...
Perhaps the most striking, if ironic, confirmation of the importance and effectiveness of Amnesty International's human rights efforts came in the form of criticism of the organization by such frequent targets of Amnesty charges as the regimes in Eastern Europe, South Africa and Chile. The western governments in particular have been sensitive to Amnesty International's success in effecting a shift in international opinion, a shift that is gradually sapping the international political and economic support without which these notoriously repressive regimes could not long survive...
That got them to the semifinals against the Peterson twins from Wellesley. It was Roberts's third win in a little over a week against that particular sister team, when the Harvard squad whitewashed their slow-starting foes...
...Vleck did not receive the Nobel Prize for a particular discovery, but for "highly valuable contributions" in a career that spanned three decades. He is known as the "father of modern magnetism," the first physicist to apply the theory of quantum mechanics to magnets...