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Word: stress (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sympathy. Each batch of men freed will be guarantors for the next, and if violence tapers off, releases will be accelerated. "I must stress with the utmost force," he declared, "the basic simple principle that the sooner violence ends the sooner internment can be ended"-though he intends also to keep the power to intern others if necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN IRELAND: Now It's Protestant Anger | 4/10/1972 | See Source »

...mean that Moscow despairs of ever healing its ideological rift with China. In his speech, the party chief did not mention that a Soviet negotiating team last week returned to Peking for what could lead to a resumption of the talks about Sino-Soviet border disputes. But he did stress that the responsibility for better relations "is up to the Chinese side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Message from Moscow | 4/3/1972 | See Source »

...problem. His proposal, the Kuwaiti Cabinet declared, "does not have the approval of the Arab nation." Arabs also thought that the King would sell out to Israel by making an easy peace in order to retrieve territory he lost in the 1967 war. Hussein called another press conference to stress that the United Arab Kingdom would not be created until Israel returned to Jordan the West Bank and the Arab sector of Jerusalem. Meanwhile Israeli officials, after displaying initial public scorn for Hussein's plan, were beginning to admit that it was a basis for bargaining. At a lunch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Quarreling Over the West Bank | 4/3/1972 | See Source »

...government by the Plowden Committee describes the progress of British infant schools (for children from 5 to 7 or 8 years old) and junior schools (for children from 7 or 8 to 11 or 12). As cited by Featherstone, the theory of teaching outlined in the Report puts a stress on "...individual discovery, of first-hand experience and on opportunities for creative work. It insists that knowledge does not fall in neatly separate compartments and that work and play are not opposite, but complementary." Featherstone outlines primary school examples in Leicester shire and Bristol where time and space are freed...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: Reform in Practice | 3/25/1972 | See Source »

...written that "an easy humanism pervades the lands writing. Given the fact that you deal on a very personal basis with human stress how do you distinguish your...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Updike Redux | 3/22/1972 | See Source »

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