Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poverty, Somalia is a stiff-necked nation. Its people pride themselves on their Hamitic heritage, their nomad hardiness. No Somali youth feels secure without an iron bracelet-won only by killing two men in combat. Argumentative and fiercely antiauthoritarian, the Somalis are often called the "Irish of Africa," although as Moslems they prefer cold camel's milk to a headier gargle. Well-meaning foreigners who stroll into their quaint, collapsible villages (stick-and skin aghals that can be packed onto camelback in a matter of minutes) often find themselves on the receiving end of accurately thrown stones...
...extended to insure mortgages on vacation homes. He asked for 25,000 additional public-housing units each year, to be added not through new construction but more quickly by Government purchase or lease of existing unoccupied structures. In his freshest innovation, the President offered a three-part program to combat the "space-consuming, unplanned and uneconomic" sprawl of suburbia. Johnson would 1) grant direct loans to help communities set aside land for future public facilities, 2) insure subdivision builder loans to install basic facilities such as sewer and water lines, and 3) insure private community developer loans to help finance...
...police the troubled island with a 10,000-man expeditionary force for the next three months. It would not be an official NATO mission, but since Greece and Turkey are both members of the alliance its manpower would be drawn from NATO nations and include some 1,200 U.S. combat troops. The Anglo-U.S. proposal also called for appointment of an impartial mediator to help break the diplomatic deadlock in London...
...well. Staack studied at the universities of Berlin and Hamburg, was ordained a minister of the Hitler-hating Confessing Church in 1939. As it did with many other rebellious Lutheran pastors, the Nazi government drafted Staack for army service in 1939; he was wounded five times in eastern-front combat and spent ten months in Russian and British prison camps. He came to the U.S. in 1949 as a graduate fellow and lecturer at Princeton Theological Seminary, joined the Muhlenberg faculty five years later...
...nostalgia, occurs in nearly every song. But even at home, the Portuguese seem eager to have their hearts broken. "A wild group of students can roar into a tavern," a medical student says wonderingly, "and immediately they become despondent, wailing their favorite fado." Positive-thinking Portuguese try unsuccessfully to combat this downbeat sense of life; if such songs must be sung, a Portuguese intellectual has urged, "let us suffer en famille and avoid letting foreigners think we have invented a new kind of yawn...