Word: submitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which tried to soften their deadly rivalry through diplomacy and mercy. But such temperateness was strictly limited to social equals; Aristotle, who is credited with inventing the term "a just war," could apply it to military action "against men, who, though intended by nature to be governed, will not submit." The Romans took over the idea of a just war as an instrument of efficient administration, and Cicero laid down some pragmatic ground rules. Only states could wage war, he insisted, and only soldiers could fight them-a useful device to preclude revolution. Before one state could attack another, hostilities...
Ideological Defect. The burden of Liu's self-denunciation turned on his "lack of understanding" and "miscalculation" of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution-in other words, his opposition to Mao. Now, he said, "I have decided to submit faithfully to the regulations of the party and not to be of two minds in party matters." It all sounded definitively abject-the words of a vanquished...
...Broadmoor," who escaped last month and wanted it known that "I am sorry that my absence has caused certain people to think badly of men like Mr. Roy Jenkins." But all Home Secretary Jenkins could do was cut short his holiday and return to his office, determined to submit the Mountbatten recommendations to Parliament...
...Appleby as his day begins, "the life of an ordinary, non-Catholic parent, free to decide-actually to decide, in calm confidence-whether or not to have a child." But the Roman Catholic Church, to which the Applebys adhere, and the rhythm method, to whose uncertain discipline they reluctantly submit, allow no such latitude. Their first child arrived nine months after the wedding, followed, at similar intervals, by two more. And now, dabbing queasily at the breakfast bacon, Adam's wife congeals his spirit with the announcement that they may have lost another round of Vatican Roulette...
...fumed as the church's millennium was celebrated by millions of Poles. No sooner were the ceremonies over last month than Gomulka felt he could safely hazard his revenge. It took the form of a demand for the removal of six rectors of seminaries that had refused to submit to government inspection and control of their curriculums...