Word: submitting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...health measure is as widely accepted by the American public as the annual or semiannual physical checkup. Doctors and hospitals promote it. So do major health organizations. Many labor unions and corporations agree that periodic employee examinations serve everybody's interests. Even Presidents dutifully submit to them, as did Gerald Ford last week on his 63rd birthday. Yet an increasing number of physicians have begun to question whether the ritual trip to the doctor is really necessary or practical...
Despite all the attempts at reform, it remains extremely difficult for an immigrant to struggle through the paper work needed for a visa. Even a fully qualified applicant must stand in line for hours to acquire or submit the proper forms. The would-be immigrant must produce certificates of birth and marriage, of physical and mental health, of approval by his local police. Every foreign-language document must be translated into English by an officially certified translator, then notarized...
This is the year, the British government promises, that the Rebellion in America will be crushed. "Once those Rebels have felt a smart blow, they will-submit," predicts King George III, while Colonial Secretary Lord George Germain confidently talks of victory in one vigorous campaign. The vacillations of Lord North, the head of the government, seem ended: he now demands that the Americans be reduced to "a proper constitutional state of obedience...
...when he mistakes wrong for right." Lacking a father, George has always depended on older men for advice. Passionately attracted as a youth to the beautiful Lady Sarah Lennox, he let Lord Bute, his mother's favorite adviser and his own mentor, talk him out of marriage. "I submit my happiness to you," he wrote Bute, "who are the best of friends, whose friendship I value if possible above my love for the most charming of her sex." When Bute said no, George and his advisers agreed on Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, sight unseen...
...dangers at every turning. For King George III, who predicted last week's action last year-and who has labored, in his own perverse, indefatigable way to bring it about -the course is equally clear. "The die is now cast," he has rightly said. "The Colonies must either submit or triumph...