Word: bounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week yet another Miami-bound Eastern Airlines flight was forced to fly to Havana, the ninth American plane to be commandeered so far this year; on the same day another attempt was aborted when two youths were fooled into capture. They were convinced by the pilot that the plane did not have enough fuel to reach Cuba, and when the jet landed at Miami, FBI agents arrested the pair. Two days later, a Colombian airliner en route to Medellín, Colombia, was taken over and forced to fly to Santiago de Cuba by a Colombian airport guard...
...exactly a knee slapper and almost seemed to be unintentional. But given the context-the solemnity of the East Room of the White House and Richard Nixon's first press conference as President-the throwaway line was bound to elicit laughter. One of the first things he had done to cut down on crime in the capital, deadpanned the President, was to turn on the White House lights that Lyndon Johnson had turned off five years...
...month and three days after the fighting stopped, he presented his plan to the Cabinet, and has been refining it and pressing for its adoption ever since. Last week's action did not deal with all of the Allon proposals, only one aspect. But even so, it was bound to raise fears in the Arab world that the entire Allon Plan might eventually be adopted...
Christo-he never uses his surname-knows how to muffle a rampant motorcycle so that it acquires the petrified dynamism of a stuffed buffalo or a blind folded rhinoceros. He can embalm a slender sapling so that it lies with the mute pathos of Pearl White bound and gagged on the railroad track. His current winding sheet in Chicago enfolds a cadaver so Brobdingnagian that even the man in the street has been confronted by the undertaking...
...conflict shows through in the problem of ultimate control over academic decisions. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is Harvard's highest academic authority, but unlike every other department, Harvard's three military departments are not ultimately bound by its decisions. The ROTC departments do work closely with Faculty representatives and the Faculty has theoretically retained some control over ROTC curricula. However, in such basic matters as the exclusion of ROTC students before they have received their commissions, the unit commander, and not the Faculty, must have the final word...