Word: spectatorly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Secretary of State Cyrus Vance sounded out U.S. allies on possible economic moves against Iran during two days of hopscotching around Western Europe. He consulted with government leaders in London, Paris, Rome, Bonn and finally at the NATO meeting in Brussels. The allied governments previously had denounced Tehran for holding...
The barrier between me and the world beyond the road's shoulder as I set out from Detroit heading west on Interstate 80 was the presence of man. In the Great Lakes urban belt--the Mid-western equivalent of the Boston to Washington drive--there is no "real world" to...
The donkey's silent writhing drives Rosa from her country. The beating captures in one unbearable moment the essence of South Africa for Rosa Burger--her implication as a white in blacks' suffering. As a white spectator, she is powerless to stop the donkey's suffering or those of the...
Nixon and De Gaulle met in the Oval Office. There was about De Gaulle a melancholy air of withdrawal, of already being a spectator at his own actions-a harbinger of his imminent retirement. He called to mind a story told by West Germany's Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger...
Around the Common, the yellow and white banners flapped in the overcast dawn. Nice banners, but the stylized monogram is a bit tough to make out. "J.P.--John, Paul" one spectator decides. "No, John Portak. I have to get one of these for my brother," another says.