Word: closer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coup grew out of a split between the party's leftist moderates, led by Hafez, and a powerful, pro-Peking group of officers led by General Salah Jadid. Where Hafez sought closer ties with Egypt, Jadid demanded a complete break. Where Hafez pledged Syria to a nonintervention agreement with other Arab nations, Jadid wanted Syria free to meddle where it might. As for Hafez' Russian-style socialism, Jadid insisted on a far stricter Red Chinese version. Last December their feud exploded into the open when Hafez discovered a Jadid plot to overthrow him. Hafez chased his rival underground...
...unquestioning audience, the state of American comedy may appear to be healthy indeed. The proliferation of comedy into every corner of American life, the spreading hipness and the general joking seem to indicate one of the richest times for comedy in American history. But do they? A closer examination of current comedy reveals neither a renaissance nor a reformation but the beginnings of what could, unless it is reversed, become the dark ages of American humor...
...devastatingly sim ple: for all their freedom, modern wom en do not smoke as much as men. On the average, they do not start smoking as young, do not inhale as deeply, and have not smoked for as many years. Hammond's statistics also show, however, that the closer women's smoking practices approach men's, the closer are their disease and death rates...
After each heat, the starting gates were moved closer and closer to the top of the dune, until only one driver reached...
Unhappily, Author Lyons has produced something closer to an excruciatingly detailed publicity release rather than a definitive and probing biography, a glossy photograph rather than an interpretive painting. Sarnoffs achievements deserve better recognition -and a better biography...