Word: willingness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TIME's article on the freeing of the four Puerto Rican Nationalists [Sept. 17] twice referred to them as "terrorists." The Nationalists were received in Puerto Rico as what they are: first-class heroes of a great historical cause. True terrorists cause meaningless death and destruction, and hide as...
There are no awards for those who lose with moderation. Nations must not undertake military enterprises or diplomatic initiatives that they are not willing to see through.
Little in these stories could warn you that their author had a flair for the mock-epic that shaped his full-length works, The Ivankiad and The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin. These tales are small-scale, under-written, you might even say unambitious--but only if...
The senator attacked what he called "a small group of intransigent opponents" in Cambridge, adding that the library corporation had decided the institution's two halves should not be split. Fenn says that although the President did want the library at Harvard, "the corporation was not willing to accept conditions...
Sunday, just because you have to do something, you decide on another assault, this time through the woods and across a road. It's chaos and no one knows who is going where, and so everyone goes the wrong place, down a suicide alley where the police wait with two...