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Word: sovereigns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point in playing with formula and compromise suggestions"), endorsed the building of more Israeli settlements in the occupied territories, and stressed that her government would settle for nothing less than a genuine peace accord in which the Arabs would accept Israel's right to exist as a sovereign state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: Cabinet of Hawks | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...than yourself.... What we all do, severally and independently of each other, will change the world." He's gotten a little more spaced out in the country. He's not keeping his categories straight. A person is a country, new, underdeveloped, in need of foreign and domestic policies, but sovereign and in dependent. "But don't forget diplomacy...

Author: By Rufus Graeme, | Title: From the Shelf The New Babylon Times | 10/9/1969 | See Source »

...urban fairy tales. He is essentially a monologist, and his effect depends not so much on the credibility of his characters or incidents as on the incredibility of his language. He is a not-so-ancient mariner of kitsch, whose voyages seem mostly to have been out of the sovereign state of innocence via the borscht circuit. He re-enacts them repeatedly under assumed names in this, his first collection, emerging from a Jewish childhood on Manhattan's Lower East Side, mournful yet wide-eyed, trying to gain his fortune and lose his virginity without missing a single opening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nightclub of the Mind | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

...Cardinal also devised, as Historian O'Connell relates in this clear and remarkably sympathetic study, a code of royal morality to stiffen Louis XIII's spine and soothe his own (in O'Connell's view) active conscience. To protect his subjects, Richelieu lectured Louis, a sovereign must first protect the state. When the state is threatened, the first consideration is not to ensure justice but to remove the threat. Sadly, the headsman could not eliminate the doubts of rivals and traitors; happily, he could turn them into abstractions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Cardinal's Virtues | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

...affairs of another country. As a reflection of his canny Balkan diplomacy, Ceauşescu addressed his remarks to the Western imperialists, but the Soviets must have realized that the words also applied to them: "Imperialism disregards the national interests of the peoples, brutually encroaches on their sovereign rights." Ceauşescu even remarked that Rumania has civilian defense units trained to "fight for the defense" of their homeland -a hint that Rumania would not be as easy to invade as Czechoslovakia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rumania: Debate on Doctrine | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

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