Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...profoundly emotional and irrational nature of many of the Arab demands and expectations?almost an inability to recognize the hard facts of life. The Arabs have seen Israel prosper on soil from which they barely scratched a living when they had it; Israel's success is not only a blow to their pride but a constant rebuke to the dismal poverty in which most of the Arab world lives...
Died. Air Marshal Lord Tedder, 76, Eisenhower's Deputy Supreme Allied Commander from 1943 to 1945, a brilliant R.A.F. tactician who as Middle East air commander in 1941 devised the concept of "carpet bombing," using hundreds of planes literally to blow a path for ground troops through Nazi minefields and fortifications, later played a major role in planning and carrying out the immensely complex invasion of Europe, with primary responsibility for making certain that land and sea forces had the fullest possible air cover; of Parkinson's disease; in Banstead, England...
...Highway and the City) decides that present ideas of man's inevitable dependence on science and technology are nonsense. Modern man, he says, is a victim of a "radical misinterpretation" of human development. Furthermore, the machine will either turn him into a collectivized, automatic non-person or blow him back to the jungle. The Myth of the Machine is hybrid literature-part history, part anthropology, part poetry. It is a violent, splenetic attack on much that has happened in civilization for the past several millennia, and it occasionally approaches the absurd. But the range of its erudition and imagination...
...newspaper Al Ahram began the process of face saving short of armed conflict. It announced that with its buildup Egypt had "reached its objectives" and felt "compelled at this stage to stop at what it has accomplished so far, even if this means that we wait to receive a blow from Israel...
...given 24 hours to acquire an American accent, spent the night steeping himself in an album by a comic named Woody Woodbury. The jokes, recalls Crawford, were awful, but his accent was bang-on and he got the part. Next came his West End debut in the comedy Come Blow...