Word: behest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since August 1969, when it freed 71 imprisoned Arabs at the behest of some guerrillas who seized a Tel Aviv-bound TWA jet with 113 aboard and took it to Damascus, Israel has been the leading advocate of the nononsense, no-negotiations approach. With some 500 Arab guerrillas crowding its jails (only Nazi war crimes rate the death penalty in Israel), Israelis argue that the present rash of hijackings and other extortion attempts would quickly become a galloping plague if they answered threats to hostages by releasing prisoners. "We believe that blackmail leads only to more blackmail," says an Israeli...
...Milhous Nixon, has been at it again. Since he proved ineffective in dealing with football futures earlier this year (his diagrammed play did not keep the Miami Dolphins from losing 24-3 to the Dallas Cowboys in the Super Bowl), he turned this time to baseball past. At the behest of an RKO General radio reporter, and later in a bylined article for the Associated Press, President Nixon elaborately documented his choices for an alltime, All-Star baseball team...
...here is that they regard you as an important part of their problem. They link your name to the "China shokku" of last July whose traumatic impact far exceeded the economic shocks that followed. Having stuck to an increasingly controversial policy of support for Nationalist China at our behest, they felt doublecrossed and deliberately outflanked. Since then, the Japanese have heard that you hold rather harsh and fatalistic views about them generally-that while for the time being they have only the U.S. to turn to, they will over the long run head inevitably in a nationalist and nuclear direction...
...trial for burning draft records. There Berrigan, his brother Philip and seven other defendants tried to reverse the guilt and put the whole Viet Nam War on trial. But the characters in the film seem to be acting less from deep moral imperative than at the behest of a shared mandarin morality...
Just an Office. Why did Connally resign? Speculation abounds. When Nixon first signed him on, in December of 1970, the former Texas Governor agreed to hold the job for one year. At the President's behest he said that he would stay on for an additional six months, through June. Connally, it seems, never had any intention of remaining at his post through the election. He said, "This is just a place to have an office," and scarcely hid his growing disdain for fiscal details. Nellie Connally recently whispered to a visiting Texan friend in a Washington reception line...