Word: crack
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...final and potentially most worrisome problem was Jerusalem's strategy. The Israelis were unmistakably delighted to see the Lebanese army attempting to crack down on the guerrillas. As of last week, the bulk of the 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...
...Defense Minister Moshe Dayan said that Israel would not intervene as long as the fighting was confined to the Lebanese and the guerrillas. But he warned that Israel would be forced to act if the Syrian army moved into battle. Late in the week, one of Israel's crack units, the Golani Brigade, began maneuvers in the occupied Golan Heights of Syria. A military spokesman said that the maneuvers had been planned for some time. But in Washington, which had been counseling Israel to show restraint, some Administration officials feared that Israel's militant presence near the border...
Sanders, a 13-year veteran of the Boston Celtics, will get his first crack at a coaching position with the Crimson. His previous experience has been limited to off-season clinics and instruction at a summer camp he and former teammate Don Nelson have run for five years...
Without a warrant, without identifying themselves in any comprehensible way, the agents had terrorized the Giglottos for half an hour. A unique blunder by overzealous investigators trying to crack a narcotics ring? Hardly. A little later the same night in Collinsville, a service station operator, Donald Askew, 40, and his family were about to sit down for a late dinner when their dog began barking frantically. Askew's wife Virginia, 39, was the first to see the man standing outside the open living-room window. "I looked," says Askew, "and the man looked just like my boy, long hair...
Died. Matthew H. McCloskey, 80, Philadelphia builder and crack fund raiser for the Democratic Party; of cancer; in Darby, Pa. Though he built his construction company into one of the ten largest in the U.S., it was as a money raiser for the Democrats that McCloskey was best known. In 1934 he organized the first $100-a-plate dinner, and over the next 30 years he raised millions in campaign contributions. In 1962 he was appointed Ambassador to Ireland by President Kennedy...