Word: brink
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Farouk Abdel Nabi, an Egyptian with the World Food Program, a United Nations agency operating in Bangkok: "I can tell you after what I have seen I am willing to kill myself to get food for these people." Says a diplomat in Thailand: "The Khmers are teetering on the brink of being extinguished as a race. They will perish unless something is done right now and very fast...
...country's Islamic tribesmen, who make up some 85% of Afghanistan's 17 million people. Loyal to their old feudal leaders and enraged by the new, "godless" regime in Kabul, Muslim guerrillas launched a civil war that has kept the Soviet-backed Khalq government tottering on the brink of collapse ever since. Western diplomats in Kabul estimate that the rebels control 22 of the country's 28 provinces...
...nation in the Western Hemisphere as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States requiring a full retaliatory response on the Soviet Union." The next day, the Organization of American States gave its unanimous backing to the U.S. position. To many, the world appeared on the brink...
...fish truck lettered M. SLAVIN & SONS rolled into the underground garage of Chase Manhattan Bank's national headquarters in the Wall Street district last week carrying a cargo of armed robbers. Less than half an hour later, the truck drove out with over $2 million taken from a Brink's armored car. While the caper was the biggest and most professional of last week's heists in New York City, it was just one of 25 bank holdups in five days. New York's bank-robbery rate is up a whopping 27% so far over...
...Ghost Writer promises the incredible with the suggestion that Anne Frank is alive and working at Harvard's library. But Roth steps back from the inviting brink of fantasy. He retreats, in fact, to the drab reality of the 1950s, the time of his own spectacular debut as the author of Goodbye, Columbus. The new book retains the look, if not the actual furniture, of autobiography. Goodbye, Columbus is called Higher Education; its author is Nathan Zuckerman who, like Roth, was raised in a middle-class Jewish section of Newark. His story is based on a family embarrassment...