Word: weightier
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Washington wanted it?there was a bitter aftertaste, a feeling that the U.S. was being pressured in a manner that required new toughness on its part. Nixon was able to leave for his trip to the Mediterranean and Europe as scheduled, but the journey took on fresh and weightier significance. Although concern about Soviet activities in the Middle East was genuine enough, the original decision to take the trip had contained elements of routine flag showing and pre-election headline grabbing. Now the excursion assumed an air of urgency. The fleet he visits will have just returned from action stations...
...realization that he will get along much better if he is just himself. Students petitioning for the replacement of an elderly teacher who is using an archaic teaching approach in a marriage-preparation course are gently prodded into more understanding of their teacher. A few episodes do deal with weightier stuff: the problems of a militant black youth involved with a middle-class black girl, the dilemma of a Mexican-American boy who balances his academic limitations against his ambitions and decides to reject his counselor's recommendation that he go to college...