Word: calling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nowhere was concern greater than in Washington. Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Carter's National Security Adviser, telephoned the Shah and told him that he had U.S. backing for whatever he did?in effect, giving him the go-ahead to call in the army. The Administration believes that the military government has given the Shah a temporary reprieve. General Azhari is regarded as an intelligent, sensible administrator and unquestionably loyal to the Shah. "This is not an independent military government," stressed one Administration aide. "It's the Shah's government...
...divided Jerusalem until 1967, and of the despoliation of the Old City's Jewish Quarter by the Arabs. Never again, they say, can the city be divided and Jews be forbidden to pray before their holiest shrine, the Wailing Wall. To that end, the Israelis have created what they call "new facts" to make sure that Jerusalem stays unified. The Jewish Quarter of the Old City, for example, is being meticulously reconstructed, and 2,200 Israelis have settled there; prior to 1947, the Jewish population was only 1,300. A number of Arab families who lived near the Wailing Wall...
...have measured miles across, could have been on nocturnal migrations when the people of Roosevelt began seeing those strange, dancing lights. Indeed, as the moths hovered and blinked overhead, while trying to escape atmospheric electric fields on certain stormy nights, they might well have resembled what the scientists call a great "free-floating discoth?...
...President to a quarterback who had thrown a spectacular pass from his own 1-yd. line for a touchdown. Last week it became evident that the quick score only got the Carter Comets back into a game that had been turning into a rout. To win, Carter must now call signals effectively for a long, grind-it-out-on-the-ground drive against the awesome defense of the Inflation Bears...
Hershey insisted that it had not busted the guidelines, which call for firms to hold price boosts half a point below the average of the increases they posted in 1976 and 1977. With Hershey, comparisons are tough because the size of its bars has changed. The company is now raising the price of its basic milk-chocolate bar from 20? to 25?, but also increasing the weight of each bar by 14%, so that the price increase on each launchable ounce is 9.3%. That, says Hershey, compares with three price boosts per ounce of bar weight of, respectively...