Word: western
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Angels, on the other hand, outfought the Minnesota Twins and Kansas City Royals to win the Western Division in a race that lasted until the final week of the season...
Miller, speaking after a one-year trip through China, said that the tendency in Chinese theater to "overact" and play to an audience was the biggest difference between Chinese and Western theater. He added, however, that there seems to be a fusion taking place of this "presentational method" with a "more realistic Western method," in which actors work with the "fourth wall...
...enormities had been chosen for this group's attention not just because he had an attractive country with an agreeable winter climate but for a still less pardonable motive: his regime was an easy target. Every good soul was opposed to torture, but it suited the Western soul's book to be able to attest to it in a distant land ruled by an oil monarch who was neither friend nor foe. A foe would not admit your committee, and to find fault with a friend would give pain...
...dictate it as I copied it down. We did not notice the incongruity of this elegant spokesman of the elite of a country based on an ancient religion dictating a communication from the leader of a militant Asiatic revolutionary nation to a representative of the leader of the Western capitalist world; or the phenomenon that in an age of instantaneous communication we had returned to the diplomatic methods of the previous century?the handwritten note delivered by messenger and read aloud...
...hand at the 1954 Geneva Conference on Indochina. "The slight, "he writes, "had not been forgotten; it was referred to on many occasions in the days afterward and on subsequent visits." Kissinger was determined to make amends. Installed in a guesthouse in a walled-off park in western Peking, he awaited the Premier's visit...