Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another side to the picture. When they rocketed to economic dominance, the Ibos upset traditional tribal relationships and displaced many local tribal elites. Moslem caliphs and emirs, who dominated the economy of the North for ages, found their power threatened by Ibo entrepeneurs. Cornered, the Hausas struck a blow for tradition on the streets of their desert-bound cities...
When hurricanes spin in to rake the land with their multimegatons of atmospheric energy, death tolls are often high. The great Galveston blow of 1900 took 7,000 lives; a "killer hurricane" that struck Florida and the West Indies in 1928 left 4,000 dead in its wake. In India, where the whirling warm-water storms are called "cyclones," 11,000 Bengalis perished in a 1942 assault. Last week, as Hurricane Beulah-the third most powerful blow ever to hit Texas-slammed into the populous Rio Grande Valley and coursed its crushing way inland, only ten deaths were reported...
...loose construction of the mystery throws proper emphasis onto that relationship. As long as this argument wasn't devised after the picture's completion, one can assume that Jewison and screen writer Skirling Silliphant were trying to use the elements of a mystery much as Antonioni did in Blow-Up: as a meeting ground for two individuals. But where Blow-Up deliberately stopped short of concluding its mystery, Heat of the Night begins with the news of the murder, and ends with the capture of the murderer. So Jewison's defense is hard to buy; there is no reason...
That may be something of an overstatement. In Hebron, Mayor Ja'abari's calls for negotiations have brought him a flood of threatening letters, the derision of Jordan's Amman radio and an attempt to blow up his house. But neither Ja'abari nor his colleagues give much importance to the violence of their critics. "I am not afraid," Ja'abari says. "I believe the great majority of the Palestine people want a solution, so they can live in peace. We are tired of war. We want better days for our children." All that keeps...
...case, callow as their ideas sometimes are, the Beatles exemplify a refreshing distrust of authority, disdain for conventions and impatience with hypocrisy. "I think they're on to something," says their friend Richard Lester, 35, who directed their two films. "They are more inclined to blow away the cobwebs than my contemporaries...