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Word: unthinkable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tragically for the men involved, such kidnapings carry their own catch-22: the more governments give in to save the victims, the more frequent they become. Ceding to blackmail demands, Nixon insisted last week, was unthink able. The threat, he said harshly but realistically, was "a risk that an ambassador has to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN NOTES: Terror for Diplomats | 3/12/1973 | See Source »

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