Word: alie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this tale was. And how initially refreshing. The gasoline lines in New York City indeed snake to the horizon. Even the natives may purchase gas only on an odd day here, an even there. Lo, how it heartened them to know that the inconvenienced diplomat was Salah Omar al-Ali, the ambassador from Iraq, he whose land has helped make oil dear as gold...
...familiar characters of Rocky move through a full circle from the emotional highpoint of Rocky's first fight against the Muhammad Ali-figure of his world-champion opponent. Rocky tries doing commercials, getting a white-collar job, getting his old meat-hauling job, and even toting water in the old gym. These scenes depart most from the old Rocky, but they're also the most deadly in the new film. Sure enough, eventually both Rocky's instincts and the need for something more exciting to end the movie with than Rocky staring at his comatose wife force Stallone to backtrack...
Western intelligence experts believe that Pakistan has been trying for at least 15 years to develop a nuclear bomb, primarily to strengthen its defenses against neighboring India. When New Delhi tested its first atomic bomb in 1974, Islamabad stepped up its own efforts. The late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was then Pakistan's Prime Minister, warned that "we will eat leaves and grass, even go hungry" to build the country's own weapon. "There's a Hindu bomb, a Jewish bomb and a Christian bomb," Bhutto once wrote. "There must be an Islamic bomb...
...Ayatullah will not be on hand to view the latest round in this protracted conflict, but his Finance Minister, Ali Ardalan, will sit down in Geneva on Tuesday with his opposite numbers from the other twelve nations in the OPEC cartel...
...still claim to be the greatest, but West German boxing fans thought he looked more like the weightiest. Muhammad Ali, on a 20-day, seven-city European tour, was so flabby that he wore a T shirt during his exhibition bouts. The champ, now 37, claimed to be "at the most" only 22 Ibs. over his fighting trim of 220 Ibs., but others reckoned him 50 Ibs. above par. In Essen, a crowd of 2,500, who had paid up to $131 a ticket, watched dumbfounded as West German Boxer George Butzbach put the puffing champ on the ropes with...