Word: brinks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After a fortnight at the brink of civil war, Lebanon last week appeared to be at the brink of peace, at least for a time. After several days of furious negotiations, the Lebanese government and the Palestinian guerrillas announced that they had reached "identical viewpoints" on how to settle the bloody, brutal conflict that left more than 350 dead and 700 wounded...
...Lebanese army was concentrated near the refugee camps around Beirut, which meant that the fedayeen bases in the southeast were virtually unguarded. If the Israelis chose at this moment to cross the border and punish the guerrillas once more, Lebanon would clearly be right back at the brink...
...creator gives me the honor of finally driving Dwayne over the brink. Now that I'm free, I want to deny that I ever existed in this novel; I was the unwilling dupe in a mad production. Vonnegut won't get off by claiming he's clearing his head "of all the junk in there." He can't expect me, his own creation, to sympathize with him when he tells his schizophrenic self in a bar in his own novel that he's writing a "very bad book...
Though he had been on the brink of moving for some time, Connally's final decision came suddenly. He had not talked it over with Richard Nixon. After the President gave his speech on Watergate, Connally phoned his congratulations but avoided mentioning his own political plans. Next day he mulled over the speech, then made up his mind. "Watergate is a sordid mess," he explained at a press conference in a Houston bank, where he is a director. "But it was a silly, stupid, illegal act performed by individuals. The Republican Party didn...
...four airy Auroras who dance alternate performances, Karen Kain is an unexpected delight. In the pirouettes and balances of the Rose Adagio, she sustains holds to the brink of disaster...