Word: columne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forbidding Syrian hills. So tortuous was the terrain that the lead battalion of 35 Sherman tanks was forced to snake up the cliffside in single file. Despite heavy Israeli air and artillery strikes on the Syrian gun emplacements, Arab 130-and 122-mm. shells rained down on the slender column at the rate of ten tons a minute. Barreling straight into bazookas and antitank guns leveled to fire in flat trajectory, the Israeli tankers hit the first fortification, Gu el Aska, head-on at full speed. They pushed aside the barbed wire, thundered heedlessly through a minefield, smashed into bunkers...
...admiring account of the military sniper throughout history, arrived in the mail just as snipers began shooting in the ghettos. Halsey has also expanded a regular feature called "The Armed Citizen," which reports the derring-do of shopkeepers and housewives who have gunned down intruders. "Of course, the column omits stories of innocent people who are killed in these encounters," notes Carl Bakal, author of The Right to Bear Arms, a book critical of the gun trade...
...scarcely veiled effort to draw on the old well spring of Polish antiSemitism, he charged: "The Israeli aggression on Arab countries has met with applause from Zionist circles of Jews who are Polish citizens and who even gave drinking parties on the occasion. We do not wish a fifth column to be created in our country...
...attract more businessmen, Hamilton has spun off all financial news into a separate section with its own editorials, gossip column and a recently doubled staff of 50. Woman's Editor Susanne Puddefoot, 32, has disdainfully left the home behind and plunged into the thick of London affairs. "The Times has had an excessively masculine image," she says, "at a time when the differentiation between masculine and feminine is not so strong." To right the balance, she has run lively stories on everything from the troubles of immigrant women to a London matron falsely accused of shoplifting...
...changes, much of the material of the old Times still appears in the new. The paper continues to carry detailed parliamentary news, lawyer-written law reports and the Court Circular, which keeps track of British royalty. Top people can still discover what other top people are up to in columns of high-toned chitchat. Though demoted from the front page to the back, the personal-ad column still evokes an engagingly eccentric England. Butlers and nannies proffer their respectable services, bird lovers and wine connoisseurs seek out rarities...