Word: persisted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rural areas, where 80% of the people still live, the routine is more casual and relaxed than in the city, but also far more spartan. Privacy, though still at a premium, is easier. It is in the countryside, too, where many of China's traditional values persist: sons are valued over daughters, and ancestor worship, though rapidly diminishing, survives. A peasant, if his family desires, can be given an old-style funeral procession, including mourning garments for the relatives-even though the party has tried to encourage simple cremations...
...Shah of Iran laid it on the line: "The era of terrific progress and even more terrific income and wealth based on cheap oil is finished." Henry Kissinger sees it another way. If high energy prices persist, he warns, "the great achievements of this generation in preserving our institutions and constructing an international order will be imperiled...
...should read this book. If women and men see themselves in these patterns, they cannot persist long...
...Chris's father said: "They might get married in December or next year or a year from now." But the romance seems to have shaken Chrissie's game. After winning 56 straight matches, she has been beaten two times running by Australian Star Evonne Goolagong and rumors persist that Jimmy's mother, Gloria Connors, a former amateur star herself, is possessive, and does not give the young couple enough time together. Well, mixed doubles is never having to say you're sorry...
Other people persist in seeing moral issues where there are none. For the democratic rights of Black people are not to be secured by a moral system but a political one. Even Abraham Lincoln, no freedom fighter he, grasped this point: "If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save...