Word: all-out
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...United Nations unit was killed by sniper fire outside the city. A Syrian MIG-25 jet fighter was struck by an Israeli missile and crashed into a northern suburb. In eastern Lebanon, Syrian and Israeli armies still confronted each other. Though both sides said they hoped to avoid all-out war, each vowed it would not depart until the other left...
...ambitious politician, name recognition is half the battle. By this standard, Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne, up for re-election in April 1983, appears to have declared all-out war. She has plastered her name on everything in sight: garbage cans and lampposts, billboards, transit passes, police stations and concert posters. This weekend, for instance, Chicagoans will celebrate "Mayor Byrne's Labor Day Concert and Fireworks," the latest in a long line of personalized events. In this advertising campaign, even the city's name is sometimes omitted, as in "Precinct Headquarters, Jane M. Byrne, Mayor." Said an almost admiring...
...appeared that Reagan had succeeded in keeping the conservative rebellion from spreading and had begun to turn the tide of opposition. His all-out fight had "slowed the erosion" of support for the bill, New York Republican Congressman Barber Conable told TIME Correspondent Neil MacNeill. "The rebellion isn't feeding on itself now. His strong intrusion has made people cautious...
...Habib had yet to wrap up the how and the when, and negotiations were going on under the gun, literally. Prime Minister Menachem Begin repeated his government's threats that Israel would mount an all-out assault on the Lebanese capital to destroy Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization if a way could not be found for the P.L.O. to leave peacefully. At the same time, in an obvious attempt to increase the pressure on the P.L.O., Israeli forces bombarded the beleaguered city and its southern suburbs for seven straight days before Habib managed to arrange still another...
...that the raid had involved only two Iranian planes, and that the pilot of the downed jet turned out to be Major Abbas Dowran, who was famous in the Iranian air force for his exploits in previous missions over Iraq. Baghdad officials suspected that Iran, in its preparation for an all-out assault along its central border with Iraq, had sent the Dowran mission not only to bomb the Iraqi capital but also to survey and test the city's air defenses...