Word: armes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week before, there had been real danger that the U.S. would start arming Israel while Britain continued to arm theArabs. U.S. policy finally crystallized in a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for sanctions (i.e., punishment) against either side that refused or broke the truce. Britain supported the resolution. Against that united front, the warring parties did not dare to stand...
...hinted that it might call on the U.N. Security Council for sanctions against the Arabs, and lift the embargo on arms to Israel. "The Arabs," declaimed Syria's Faris el Khoury in reply, "are ready to be killed by your atomic bombs." Khoury and everyone else knew that it would not come to that. But the U.S. and Britain (if it continued to arm Arab states) might easily drift into fighting each other by Jewish and Arab proxies: Or, if Britain joined the U.S. in sanctions against the Arabs, the last chance of winning Arab friendship for the Western...
Born, but When? Satchel has been around the game so long that his memory-and his arm-ain't what they used to be. But he still makes the modest claim that he is the "world's greatest pitcher." Satchel† Paige was born in Mobile, Ala., 39, 43 or more probably 45 years ago, son of a landscape gardener and a mother who hated baseball. He was one of a family of nine-or sixteen. This mathematical inexactitude did not trouble Cleveland's President Bill Veeck last week. For all Veeck cared, Satchel might...
...their knapsacks at the door. The old regulars missed a familiar sight: a limousine pulling up in front just before concert time, and a tall (6 ft. 1 in.) woman with a flower-garden hat and a look of the '90s about her clothes, stepping out on the arm of a friend. At 84, almost deaf and barely able to walk, Patroness Coolidge was too tired to go that far for a concert (although she did get to one nearer home, in Pittsfield, Mass...
...five feet from the pin. He canned the putt for a score of 284, enough to win his third British Open and the cheers of 10,000 spectators. The first prize was worth only $600 in cash, but a hundred times that in prestige. As a shot in the arm for British sport lovers, the value of his victory was beyond reckoning...