Word: baddings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...renewed fighting, reported TIME'S Abu Said Abu Rish last week, left sections of Beirut looking like devastated outposts of World War II, "with flames on all sides, the clamor of sirens and the convulsions of shells exploding. Nobody can remember it being this bad even during the worst days of the civil war when [predominantly Muslim] West Beirut was under fire. Watching the destruction of East Beirut now is like watching in horror as a neighbor and his house are blown to bits. I managed to telephone one friend who had spent the night in a cellar under...
They dismissed Sadat's proposals as a hardening of the Egyptian position. Said one Israeli official: "Egypt has gone back to square minus-one." Nonetheless, Israeli officials were convinced that they should go to London, if only to help dispel Jerusalem's image as the "bad guy" who was the stumbling block to a peace settlement. But after Premier Begin made another hard-line speech, a Western diplomat in Israel sadly remarked that "the diplomatic Novocain has already worn off"-a reference to the fleeting benefits of Mondale's visit to Jerusalem...
...month, portly Minister of Health Raj Narain was solicitously waiting for him at the airport. As the leader stepped out into the 102° summer sizzle of New Delhi, Narain held out a scented handkerchief. Brushing the offer aside, Desai snapped: "You put perfume here, but you spread a bad smell about the party elsewhere." With that retort the Prime Minister triggered a crisis in his 16-month-old government that led to the resignation of two Cabinet ministers, fractured the fragile unity of the ruling Janata Party and-unwittingly-cleared the way for a possible political comeback...
...shock group even agreed to eat a dead worm Frieden dangled in front of them. The reason, he thinks, is that they were anxious to learn if they were indeed masochists. In general, Frieden concludes, it is surprisingly easy to push normal people toward masochism. Says he: "When feeling bad about themselves, people actively choose to suffer." The good news is that none of the students received an electric shock or dined on worm. Frieden stopped the test when the newborn masochists made their choice...
That may sound less like optimism than Pollyannaism. So far this year inflation has exploded. From March through May, it averaged 11.3% at an annual rate, one of the worst three-month performances ever. Though no one expects the surge to remain that bad, the Carter Administration last week forecast a 7.2% rise for the full year, and some economists expect an 8% increase...