Word: armed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...claim to the Sudan, and even sought a Palestine settlement. Yet even Nasser could not resist the temptation of turning from the slow, difficult tasks of true growth toward the easier course-feeding his people's hunger with visions of revenge on Israel. Russia chose to arm the fantasy. In the end, Nasser bluffed and blustered himself into war and defeat, and mortgaged his country as a pawn of the Soviet power struggle against the West...
...weighing the advisability of running CNC people for School Committee, City Council, Democratic and Republican committemen, and delegate to the national party conventions. Another committee is studying the effect of the war on Cambridge residents--for example, its effect on local industry and welfare payments--in order to arm CNC endorsed candidates with arguments against the war that hit home...literally...
...expect him to play at all this year -if ever again. In Philadelphia last August, pursuing a long drive, he crashed into the centerfield wall at full speed-smashing his left elbow and wrist. It took a 45-min. operation and five months in a cast to get his arm back into an approximation of its original shape. But now, says Wynn without the slightest taint of modesty, "I have all the tools to be a superstar." For starters, he has pledged to hit 30 homers, drive in 100 runs, and bat at least .300 this season...
When he was a boy in Trenton, N.J., Edward Munson fell out of his tree house one day and cut his arm. Apparently the scar was lasting. Now, as building inspector for the rural Long Island town of Riverhead, N.Y., Munson, 53, has started a controversial campaign to make tree houses safer. Recently, after a Riverhead resident complained about an unsightly tree house, Munson began to require parents to obtain tree-house building permits, and issued a detailed set of specifications governing their construction: the houses must be no more than 12 ft. off the ground; walls must...
...assumption that we could count on the applause and support of the other countries has disappeared. No European or American nation has rallied to our side. Few leaders dare speak in our favor. In Asia, propinquity to the assumed danger, the most aggressive arm-twisting has not brought us allies, only a few clients...