Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...goal that became known as "linkage" has turned out to be more difficult to achieve than he thought. Nixon hoped to calm the Middle East by working with the Soviets, but last week he admitted: "I see very little defusing." The Russians are evidently content not to have genuine peace between the Arab nations and Israel, but a state of controlled tension. Nixon wanted Moscow to help him get a settlement in Viet Nam by applying pressure on the North Vietnamese. Although the Russians reportedly have tried, Hanoi remains intransigent at the Paris peace talks. He also sought to reopen...
...became mayor of Bordeaux at 32, replacing a socialist who had held the job for 19 years. He has been re-elected regularly because of his public works, which included the first bridges over the Garonne River built since the days of Napoleon III, and his high capacity to see-and be seen. "He sees a football," says one constituent, "he kicks it. He sees an old man, he gives him a decoration. He sees a baby, he kisses it. He sees a wounded veteran, he helps him across the street. He sees a hand, he shakes...
...spent four years at Cheam, an establishment that tries to produce happy boys rather than brilliant students. Charles' parents did their best to see that he was inconspicuous there. They made sure he had a smaller sailboat than anyone else. One story, angrily denied by the palace, had it that Charles found his $2.80-a-term allowance so inadequate that he sold his autograph to augment it. There were dietary problems. Once, after a stomach upset, he told a teacher that he was "not used to all this rich food at home...
...been in one before, he recalled later, and "the first thing I thought of doing was having a drink. It seemed the most sensible thing." He ordered a cherry brandy, thereby breaking the age laws?and as he put down a half-crown in payment, he glanced up to see someone whom he now recalls as "that dreadful woman," She was a freelance journalist, and the next morning the story appeared around the world. "I was all ready to pack my bags and head for Siberia," he said...
There is much that is wrong in our society: and you, if you have the courage to see it, are in an ideal position to bring those wrongs to the public eye. We should like to have a king who is not afraid to speak out against hypocrisy and inhumanity as your father has spoken out against stupidity and inefficiency. We should like a Prince who can tell our elders that the long-haired layabouts who haunt their suburban nightmares are not necessarily destructive ogres, but sometimes human beings who are more concerned with men than with money...