Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...envision a scenario something like this: The Soviet Union (for some unexplained reason) sends massed troops into Western Europe. This sudden development--the United States intelligence community evidently knew nothing about it--mushrooms into "a prolonged war with extensive casualties." It seems that some of our representatives--who never speak in terms of the Vietnam debacle--forgot that the Department of Defense analysts who prepared these reports are the same ones hwo put us "waist deep in the Big Muddy...
...China sitting solitary, her ties back to the Chinese past attenuated, her bridges across to the alien present barred...The provincialism of the culture of the Cultural Revolution is a mark of loneliness, too, a cutting off from their past and the contemporary world around them. They try to speak to the world, as our men of the foreign theater tried to speak. Some people are listening. Maybe some peoples are listening. One way or another [the choice of ways is fearful], China will join again on the cosmopolitan tide. Cultural intermediaries, Cultural Revolutionaries--neither will look like stranded minnows...
...distortion which this creates is partially clear where my statement is concerned. I said that "Most wars are fought for idiotic reasons and destroy more than they create." I made this statement as an individual speaking about an issue which concerns me deeply because of its effects on all living things. In the article this quote is sandwitched between two statements about what "many women" said. War is a subject on which I have very strong feelings. I would be very hesitant to make any statement about other women's views on the subject or about the extent to which...
Most of North House's assembly delegates have refused to vote or speak at full meetings of the assembly since March 4, when their House Committee formally recommended that they boycott the assembly...
...rights groups, who argue that rape victims have too often been "raped a second time" by the criminal justice system, and by law reformers, who want rape treated rationally, like any other violent crime. One step has been to drop the word rape. Many of the new statutes speak in terms of sexual assault, sexual battery or criminal sexual conduct and carefully define...