Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...advance notice. Discussing the double-barreled blow recently at ceremonies opening the new Japan House in New York City, Professor Jun Eto of the Tokyo Institute of Technology said: "It was almost as if the black ships had reappeared off the coast of Japan." The Japanese described Nixon's twin action as an ofuku binta?the forehand-backhand slap in the face that imperial army officers administered to erring soldiers before...
...with cold, unswerving conviction when he faced prison officials over the negotiating table. The other Richard Clark, to the best of his family's knowledge, is no revolutionary but a quiet, amiable "homebody" who liked to halt neighbors on the sidewalk so they could admire his twin sons...
...Washington, Secretary Rogers declared to Japanese Foreign Minister Takeo Fukuda: "I see your position as totally illogical." Replied Fukuda: "Politics has its own logic." Premier Eisaku Sato's government was stunned by the announcement of Nixon's trip to Peking and by his economic policy, and those twin shocks have served to reinforce the arguments of Sato's critics that Japan should have a foreign policy more independent of the U.S. Even Sato's own Liberal Democratic Party is sharply divided over whether Tokyo should move immediately toward closer relations with Peking...
Medvedev was released only after his twin brother, Roy, an eminent historian, mobilized a protest by a group of internationally renowned writers and scientists, including Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Physicists Andrei Sakharov and Pyotr Kapitsa, and Mstislav Keldysh, president of the Academy of Sciences. Last summer, in an attempt to hush up the embarrassing affair, the KGB (Soviet secret police) promised the Medvedevs that they would "close the case" and asked for assurances that the brothers would not write about what had happened. Roy Medvedev agreed, on the condition that there be no more "psychiatric blackmail...
...said that his use of Jensen's statistics was entirely noncontroversial. "All Jensen did was to collect the figures of four standard identical twin studies from the 1920's. All I have done is use his conclusions based upon the data...