Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...revenge the dead and discourage further attacks, Israel retaliated-and perhaps overreacted-with heavy artillery barrages and bombing raids on southern Lebanon. When the Israeli Phantoms and Kfirs had completed their runs and wheeled back to base, three villages-'Izziyah, Hinniyah and Burj al Shamali-had been all but wiped out. The Lebanese government claimed that at least 119 people, most of them women and children, were dead and more than 200 were wounded. The casualty toll was the worst ever in southern Lebanon, exceeding that of a similar Israeli raid on Dec. 2, 1975, in which 100 died...
...social action. "Were they marching for full employment?" he asks. "Were they marching to rebuild cities? No, the thrust was to lower the drinking age to 18, to legalize marijuana, to engage in sex and accept no responsibility for the baby. [But] one has to have an ethical base for a society. Where the prime force is impulse, there is the death of ethics. America used to have ethical laws based in Jerusalem. Now they are based in Sodom and Gomorrah, and civilizations rooted in Sodom and Gomorrah are destined to collapse...
DIED. Stanley ("Bucky") Harris, 81, member of baseball's Hall of Fame who managed five major league teams during his 29-year career; of Parkinson's disease; in Bethesda, Md. After playing second base for the Washington Senators, Harris became the "boy manager" of the team at age 27 and led them to the 1924 World Series title. After that the gentlemanly pilot had a flurry of failures, but in 1947 he guided the Yankees to the world championship...
...economically insecure and the politically opportunistic. It develops when groups, especially the petit bourgeois groups which have achieved a tenuous hold on the lower steps of the good life, feel threatened by those beneath them who are clamoring for a place on the ladder. Politically, it provides a base for charlatans who, lacking all sense of human deceny or commitment to the common good, would place their own personal advancement by means of the monopoly of their own little ethnic turn above the harmony of their society. And, psychologically, such ethnic revivals are pathetic attempts to enhance a doubted sense...
Iowa City (pop. 49,000), a faculty town?the University of Iowa is the main industry?with a taxpaying base of prospering middle-class professionals, was in an innovative mood. It approved when Merlin Ludwig, then superintendent of schools, granted West's 1,040 students a nonvoting chair on the board of education in 1970. Ludwig also introduced a more flexible curriculum. Grades were abolished at the elementary-school level, and a pass-fail option was installed at West. As a final gesture, Ludwig declared a new motto for his school district: "Iowa City Puts the Student First." In short...