Word: banke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...From China. Despite such exercises in extended solipsism, the defeat could not be hidden. What was left of Jordan was swarming with refugees from the overrun west bank of the Jordan River. Amman's normal population of 300,000 was swelled by at least 100,000 refugees, many of whom arrived with their feet bleeding, their earthly possessions left behind. Schools, mosques and public buildings were converted into sleeping quarters, and thousands of refugees bedded down on sidewalks, in doorways or on the city's rocky hillsides. They foraged in garbage cans for food, which quickly became scarce...
...Egyptian people had not yet been told of the extent of the debacle. There were no announced casualty figures, no lists of wounded or missing, no mention of the fact that Israel held the east bank of the Suez. Egyptian officials evacuated part of the population of El Qantara, site of a bridge across the canal, to prevent townsfolk from seeing the stream of ragged, bandaged soldiers dragging homeward. But the troops returned with tales, and the marketplaces of Cairo buzzed with rumors. In the streets of Cairo, people spat on their own army officers...
...some exchanges" with the Russians-the first hard news on use of the hot line. Lady Bird tugs L.B.J. out of the light, but he returns. The Israelis are not going to give up easily what they have won, he says; they have always talked about Jerusalem, the west bank of the Jordan, the Syrian heights, Aqaba. Would they reach Suez? The President did not feel that anything would stop them. Good night, Dan. Good night, Mr. President...
...soon you'll have all of New York clamoring for your work." Pure boasting? At the time, yes. Lichtenstein's first pop paintings were derided as belonging to the "King Features school," and a bad joke. Today, it's all the way to the bank. At 43, Lichtenstein is a pop hero: half a dozen museums own his work, his every show is a sellout, and his prices have jumped tenfold, to $12,000 for a large canvas...
...teaching assistant in finance at M.I.T., won an investment contest in Harvard's Bull and Bear Club by totting up a 68% gain in four months, acted as resident tutor at his fraternity house, founded his own data-processing company, which has a contract with the First National Bank of Boston, and flew to New York City once or twice a month to work in the institutional-research department of a brokerage house, Oppenheimer & Co. As the time approached for him to get his degrees (Harvard's LL. B. this month; M.I.T.'s master of science...