Word: ars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even now continuing to stumble back toward the Suez. Soon the Israelis had so many prisoners that they would only detain officers. An official Israeli statement announced that some of the retreating Egyptian soldiers had been machine-gunned by their own troops form across the canal upon their ar- rival. The statement also said that the Egyptians had cut the water pipe lines which fed from Egypt into occupied Sinai and that although it had inconvenienced the Israeli forces, it had also made it more difficult for the returning Egyptian soldiers to find water...
...same night marish maze of regulations that the Interstate Commerce Commission ap plies to REA's parents. Without special ICC permission, REA cannot haul goods from city to city by truck; instead it must put the goods on a train - no mat ter how bad the connection - and ar range pickup and delivery at the other end. Last week its railroad owners at last gave up, and offered to sell the operation to the highest bidder...
...stand-in for the past ten years, he became proficient in the art of rocket rattling, in 1963 even claimed that "Soviet rockets can reach Polaris bases no mat ter where they are." For the past seven years, Grechko has doubled as supreme commander of the Warsaw Pact ar mies, a post that the Kremlin last week gave to another Russian general. Grechko is something of a political hero as well: among the eight rows of medals on his chest is East Germany's Gold Order of Merit, which he won for suppressing the workers' uprising...
...technology has pushed the price of introducing new goods so high that no company can risk its investment on anything so old-fashioned as a simple supply-and-demand marketplace -which is little more than a "fairy tale" anyway. To eliminate risks, droves of technocrats set minimum prices, ar range orderly supply and virtually dictate demand through advertising...
...requirements for customary instruments compelled him to devise a new written language that would convey the sounds he wanted to hear. Today, many of his notational inventions have become the accepted form for avant-garde composers. Tone clusters, for example are designated by highest and lowest notes by A ar...