Word: wil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government in which Catholics as well as Protestants truly share power. A few days after the appointment, representatives from Britain, the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland sat down for their first, historic talks on a Council of Ireland. But the robust figure who made it possible was absent: Wil liam Whitelaw had a new war on his hands...
...GERMANS GO HOME and WE WONT FORGIVE THE GERMAN MURDERS. The mood of the Israeli people as a whole seemed much less strident. A poll taken just before Brandt's arrival showed 66% in favor of the visit, and in Jerusalem he was greeted by friendly crowds chanting "Wil-ly, Wil...
...hours of sleep as the train chugged back to the capital. At one point, Brandt seemed on the verge of nervous exhaustion; bags drooped under his eyes and the lines deepened in his face. Yet he never lost the magnetism that brought out roars of "Willy, Wil-ly!" from crowds. Toward the end of the campaign his energy snapped back, and there was no doubt that Brandt was confident of reelection...
...many foreign ministers as he can during the opening weeks of the U.N. General Assembly. But the U.N. has grown so rapidly in recent years that what was once routine diplomacy has now become a kind of diplomatic marathon. By the end of this week, Secretary of State Wil liam Rogers - hoarse of voice and red of eye - will have spent eleven days in New York; in that time, he will have held bilateral discussions with no few er than 66 foreign ministers or their deputies, a heavier schedule than that of any other diplomat...
...Wil Anderson, on the sunset side of 50, has to get his herd of cattle to market. The hands he hired for the drive ran out on him when they heard about the gold strike upriver. There is not a man left in the territory to help him, so Wil turns to boys-eleven eager, callow youngsters. He teaches them a little about roping and riding trail. He hires a black man named Jebediah Nightlinger to tend the chuck wagon. Then, uneasy with the entire proposition, he sets...