Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is also talk of helping break the reading barrier for good, and perhaps reversing a trend that has seen the reading skills of American schoolchildren decline while reading consultants, advisers, textbooks and remedial reading courses proliferate. "A great thing about Me-Books," Me-Book Publisher Freeman Gosden Jr. told a lecture audience at the American Booksellers Association meetings this year, "is that one book can't be passed from child to child...
That, at least, is the way the Israelis told it. Syrian authorities insisted that the battle had been touched off when two Israeli Phantoms streaked into Syria from the direction of Lebanon and broke the sound barrier over the inland cities of Horns and Hama. As Syrian planes rose to meet them, the Phantoms headed toward the sea, strafing a Syrian village on the way out. Over the Mediterranean, other Israeli fighters pounced on the Syrian pursuit. In the dogfight that followed, Syria said that it had shot down five Israeli jets and lost eight...
Cornelia Wallace, 34, the beautiful second wife of Alabama's Governor George Wallace, likes to drive fast, so fast, in fact, that she recently joked to a nonplussed Dick Cavett, they had to "put a governor on me." She has now approached the sound barrier as a passenger in an F-4 Phantom fighter belonging to the Alabama National Guard. Back on the ground at Montgomery's Dannelly Field, Cornelia announced, "I think we should have more women pilots, and I hope it will not be too long before we have a woman in the space program." Meanwhile...
...buildings from the Wall. Some started tearing out concrete slabs with their bare hands. Others joined them, and soon some 300 men, women and children were at the Wall, screaming their frustration and anger at the hated Grepos. A hole six feet wide was ripped out of the barrier, and several young men prepared to assault the other side. Their impotence was quickly made clear, however, by an East German soldier, who pointedly reloaded his submachine gun and aimed it at their faces. Scattered shouts of "murderers," "criminals" and "swine" changed to a rhythmic chant of rage and frustration. Eventually...
...agent who had planted the mike in the target office had tested the key, so the first barrier would yield. But the lock on the office door was a later model -pin and tumbler-and they would have to make its key on the spot ... "All right," Peter said curtly, "I don't want heroes, just the contents of the safe...