Word: undertook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...undertook an extended mission to Latin America for Nixon in 1969. While he courted fascist dictators in their palaces, he was vilified in the streets--and that puzzled...
...United Nations. In 1951, the regime paid lip service to its earlier pledges to Tibet's right to regional autonomy. But between 1952 and 1958, the Chinese fought a revolt in East Tibet, destroying over a thousand monasteries and killing or imprisoning countless monks and lamas; the Chinese undertook a full-scale campaign to eliminate once and for all the region's religion and customs. During the bloody upsurge the Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual and temporal ruler, fled to asylum in India, charging that Peking had ignored its agreement with his country...
...ERVIN thought that Nixon got into trouble because his gang "undertook to nullify the laws of God and the laws...
...transparency. The subjects of his earlier paintings seem to have been chosen to show what happens to light on every sort of surface-the hammered gold of a chalice, the sleek moist interior of an oyster or the pock-marked ivory of a hornbill's beak. Raffael undertook an inspection of their varied skins on the level, if not of the cell, at least on that of the pore. Each point where light hit the tiniest break of texture or color was set down in a curious, tightly circling calligraphy that resembled beads, or agglomerations of frog spawn. Despite...
...maintenance of Thieu's government in general, and American aid to the Saigon budget Thieu uses for prisons at his own discretion, the United States is underwriting at least some of Thieu's prison system in particular, as it has for years. Senator James Abourezk (D-S.D.) recently undertook an extensive investigation into American aid to Saigon's police and he reported to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at the end of June...