Word: talked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...senior wanted to talk about the team, his team: "All season long, we knew we could do it. I think we proved something to some other people...
According to your article, Smith said that "Purvis ran up and ordered: 'Back away from that man, I want to talk to him.' Pretty Boy glared and cursed, at which point, said Smith, Purvis turned to G-Man Herman Hollis and said: 'Fire into him.' Hollis obeyed, said Smith, killing Floyd with a burst from a tommy...
Uncertainty and lack of knowledge contributed to the tension. Carter met with relatives of the hostages, tried to reassure them and discussed some of the problems the U.S. was facing. As Scoop Jackson described the dilemma: "Who do you talk to? Who do you deal with? It's a situation of great instability. You don't know what's going to happen from one moment to the next." One White House aide expressed his anxiety in the jargon of the Pentagon's war gamers: "It's a classic case of gaming versus an irrational opponent. As the irrationality approaches...
...entirely independent of other ways of knowing; science, language and so on. He believes, in the words of Ruskin, "that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one." I'm sure that a very small classroom would contain all the people at Harvard who share Ruskin's opinion, but without such a conception...
...effort in the North is supported by an anxious voice from the South -that of Eire's Prime Minister Jack Lynch. This week Lynch is in the U.S. to talk with President Jimmy Carter and Irish-American leaders about the problems affecting both the North and South of Ireland. He is clearly no hard-liner in his attitudes. He castigates the I.R.A., despite criticism of his stance from the left wing of his own Fianna Fail party. He is willing to view Irish unity as a distant dream to be reached only after considerable evolution, but on one premise...