Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...emigration. Carter and Teng engaged in some banter. "You can have 10 million Chinese if you wish," the Vice Premier said, hawking and spitting into a spittoon at his feet. "In that case, we'll send you 10,000 journalists," said Carter. That was enough on that subject...
Teng was also obdurate on the subject of Taiwan. Carter pressed him for explicit assurances that China would not use force to unify the island with the mainland. Teng refused, later telling reporters: "We will try our very best by peaceful means to bring about the return of Taiwan to the mainland ... If we are to commit ourselves to not using armed force at all, it would be the equivalent of tying up our own hands [in any negotiations with the Nationalists...
...Pacific beach near Tijuana, Mexico, Chad Green, a frail but lively three-year-old American boy, was happily digging into the sand last week and laughing at squirrels scampering near by, quite unaware that he is the subject of a dramatic medical and legal controversy. Chad is suffering from leukemia, and an argument is raging over who has the right to decide how he should be treated: his parents, Gerald and Diana Green, or state officials in Massachusetts responding to the advice of doctors...
...moves with gymnastic ease and I curves his lip well. Russell plunges deeply into Presley's psyche, bringing all the talent and all the obsession right to the surface. He and Director Carpenter contrive an introduction that eerily sets the tone of the movie and fixes their subject all at once: his I shadow deep on a white wall, Presley sits alone in a dark Las Vegas hotel room, dressed all in black, watching television from behind dark shades, waiting for the night and his first show. It's good drama and good rock 'n' roll...
...have relished, Ben Sonnenberg died last September, at age 77, during the New York newspaper strike. Thus he had no obituaries of any size, and his passing, though mourned by friends, made little news. But then, Sonnenberg's profession was to be the midwife of stories, not their subject. He was one of the first modern public relations men. Indeed he had been at the game so long-"fashioning," as he once put it, "large pedestals for small statues"-that many people thought he had invented the p.r. business. He had not, but Sonnenberg outlived all its other pioneers...