Word: bordering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Search for a Policy. If Nasser is undeterred, the threat of Israeli might has had more effect on Lebanon, which has tried to prevent fedayeen guerrillas from raiding Israel across its border. Two weeks ago, the Lebanese government resigned amid widespread rioting that followed a clash between security forces and a group of fedayeen. Last week Lebanese politicians were still trying to put together a new government. They were also seeking a policy that would mollify the guerrillas without bringing on Israel's wrath-particularly since Charles de Gaulle's pledge to protect Lebanon from an Israeli invasion...
...troops, tanks, rockets and jet fighter planes. As civilians marched with flowers and banners, and occasionally danced in the streets, Party Boss Brezhnev gave a bland, relaxed speech-and that was it. (Washington observers, though, wondered whether a military parade had been held in Khabarovsk, near the uneasy Chinese border.) In Prague, the parade itself was canceled and the populace was gently turned away from the statue of King Wenceslas in the main square, which has become a symbol of Czechoslovak resistance...
Overabundance is common in the developed nations that can afford to subsidize farming. It is a costly bounty that threatens to stimulate further protectionism and provoke trade-damaging price wars behind the barricades of new border taxes, import quotas and additional grain subsidies. The cruel irony is that while almost half of the world's people are malnourished, there is sufficient food to feed them today...
Born in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1888, of Italian parents, Ungaretti was in his twenties before World War I broke out. He wrote his first poems in the trenches of Carso, on the French border, and published Il Porto Sepolto (The Submerged Seaport) in 1916. These earliest poems, laconic and unpunctuated, implied from the beginning a break with d'Annunzio and the traditions of Italian poetry. Glauco Cambon's study of Ungaretti in the Columbia series recalled the war poems as "flashes of insight bursting through the shell of established prosodic convention to capture the immediacy of inner experience." And Ungaretti...
...Reed) wangles a cushy work detail in a German zoo, where he spends his days caring for the prize elephant (Aida). He develops a platonic crush on the poor beast, so that when the Allies bomb the zoo Brooks resolves to lead his pal to safety across the Swiss border. With the help of the Yank leader of some highly irregular troops and the customary blundering and stupidity of the Nazis, Brooks makes it across the river into the trees and over the Alps (Hannibal-get it?) to freedom...