Word: basilic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Baer became a lecturer on military affairs at Tel Aviv University. As a member of the International Association of Military Commentators, he was a close friend of Britain's respected military expert, Basil Henry Liddell (The Defense of the West) Hart, who visited him in Tel Aviv. Baer toured NATO instalations in Europe three years ago, lectured in West Germany, and last year paid a visit to Moscow. Another close friend: Israel's Deputy Defense Minister Shimon Peres, one of the favorites eventually to succeed Ben-Gurion. There had been questions before about Baer's loyalty...
David is only one of the embassy oddballs, mostly relatives, with whom the narrator-heroine Fanny has to cope in Don't Tell Alfred. Another is Son Basil, full of spivish schemes such as a telly-rest coach for British tourists whose feet and palates are weak: "When they gets to the place they've come to seethe Prado, say, or some old world hill town in Tuscany, they just sits on in the coach and views the 'ole thing comfortable on TV while eating honest grub, frozen up in Britain, all off plastic trays, like...
...head of the National Foundation, Basil O'Connor, blasted the Journal's publication of Dr. Ratner's judgment as "a great disservice to the public." The A.M.A. sputtered that it had printed only "the correspondent's opinion and not the opinion of the A.M.A...
...plan for the spring and summer campaign when the disease attacks again. Hostilities promptly broke out within the council of war itself, mainly over the relative merits of the Salk injected and the Sabin oral vaccines. The chief antagonists were the National Foundation's crusty perennial chairman, Basil O'Connor, and the University of Cincinnati's inventive, acidulous Dr. Albert B. Sabin...
...abroad amounts to about $30 billion, 50% more than U.S. Government investment abroad. While the pace of foreign investments has been stepped up by a scramble to get into the Common Market area before the tariff walls go up, it is based more solidly on worldwide economic growth. Says Basil James, the American sales director of British Aluminium, which is 49% owned by Reynolds aluminum: "American business has become aware that the fastest-growing markets may be outside the U.S. To serve these markets we have to be competitive, and establishing our own production and merchandising facilities abroad has helped...