Word: tooke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most absurd that Jimmy Carter had faced. Despite almost four weeks of diplomatic efforts, the U.S. and the Soviet Union were stalemated over a smoldering dispute that threatened to flare out of control. The confrontation had even reached the point last week that TASS, the official Soviet news agency, took the unusual step of denouncing Carter personally for "absolutely unfounded and crude attacks" on the U.S.S.R...
...talks on the controversy continued. On Monday, Vance and Gromyko had met at the Soviet Mission to the U.N. Aides to the Secretary described the 70-min. session as dispiriting; Gromyko did not budge from the Kremlin's public position. Nor did he at a second meeting, which took place Thursday at Vance's New York hotel suite and lasted more than three hours...
...professional politician: he spoke a language that Nixon understood. As Secretary of Defense, Laird knew his subject thoroughly before he took office. Remaining influential in the Congress, Laird could be ignored by the President only at serious risk. While his maneuvers were often as byzantine as those of Nixon, he accomplished with verve and surprising good will what Nixon performed with grim determination and inward resentment. Laird liked to win, but unlike Nixon, derived no great pleasure from seeing someone else lose. There was about him a buoyancy and a rascally good humor that made working with him as satisfying...
...journalists. And yet she was on to something. The "peace is at hand" press conference had had an electric effect. Coming on top of a year of successful negotiations, it was for me a moment of unusual pride not leavened by humility. Fallaci caught that mood, even if she took liberties with my pronouncements. She wrote history in the Roman style; she sought psychological, not factual, truth...
...department has been embroiled in controversy since John F. Kain, professor of Economics, took over as chairman of the CRP in 1975 and introduced a more multidisciplinary curriculum, which includes courses in economics and political analysis as well as planning...