Word: glimmering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that Britain move all of its troops out of Catholic neighborhoods immediately and withdraw all soldiers from Northern Ireland by Jan. 1, 1975-conditions that Whitelaw described as "unacceptable"-thft negotiations were expected to continue. The end of the truce also quashed, at least for the time being, this glimmer of hope for an eventual reconciliation. Whitelaw's announcement of the discussions infuriated Ulster's Protestants, not simply because he had negotiated with the Catholic terrorists, but also because he had previously said that he would...
...They were clearly a better team, but there was no reason for us to be out of the game. We had hoped to plan the way we did in the second half of the UMass game, our first glimmer of hope, but we didn't play that way at all." Green added...
...thing is clear: any glimmer of hope we give the oppressed peoples we support depends not on the duration of our college work suspension, and not on the extent of the damnation we register against those university members who've shown complicity in imperialist wars. A "strike" line like that of 1970 would put real pressure neither on Nixon's war or the Harvard Corporation's holdings in Gulf...
...Muskie camp. Muskie himself appeared as if his nerves were shot. Plagued by poor scheduling, he looked and was tired. In the snowshoe parade held in his honor the Sunday before the balloting, he almost sleepwalked through the crowd, gesturing mechanically, with no expression on his face. A glimmer of recognition would cross his face only when he came across a familiar face, but the light passed quickly when he couldn't remember to whom the face belonged...
...difficult enough to withstand the pressures of constant conflict, amidst the daily worry, the threats, and the rumors, even when there is a faint glimmer of peace in distant sight. Israel has learned to adjust itself to the situation. Yet it is quite another matter and unbearable beyond quite another matter and unbearable beyond belief to face the prospect of war without end for this generation and for generations to come; to accept as a fact and state of nature that in order to survive, a country can never put down its guns, but rather must raise its children from...