Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frontier towns of Nablus, Hebron and Ramallah, old men puffed their snake-stemmed hookahs outside coffeehouses, and traffic beeped its way back to normal. But beneath the surface, tensions were tight. "The whole place," said one of King Hussein's former Cabinet ministers, "is ready to blow...
...million to $43 million; on top of that, it is asking for another $11 million a year over the next decade to make up for what it calls "faulty accounting" in I.P.C.'s past fee payments. When I.P.C. balked at the outrageous sums, Syria at first threatened to blow up the pipeline, then decided to seize it and force I.P.C. to run it under government supervision. As things stand, I.P.C. may have to double its annual shellout to $56 million before it can get its pipeline back...
...After talking with Joyce, Cerf brought back a copy, which was promptly seized at customs. With Attorney Morris Ernst, Cerf took the Ulysses case to court. The now famous decision by Judge John M. Woolsey not only gave Cerf-and Joyce -an impressive victory, but it landed a staggering blow against censorship...
...protest groups. As a result, they often send too few men to shield pickets from counter-pickets, or they go to the other extreme and send so many that they cripple law enforcement elsewhere. Worse, too many police respond too readily to demonstrators' taunts. And when choleric cops blow their tops, the skilled rabble-rouser is delighted, for it is "police brutality" that attracts TV news cameras and dramatizes "the cause...
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