Word: crossed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Operation Intercept got under way, U.S. border guards and customs officers fanned out across the porous 2,500-mile Mexico border that large quantities of illegal drugs cross on their way to the U.S. Officers and trained hounds searched automobile glove compartments and trunks, children's dolls and hollow surfboards, northbound traffic was slowed for miles on Mexico's routes 2 and 15. Other agents were at the ready in Coast Guard ships, fast cars, helicopters and high-speed pursuit planes to cut off smugglers at any available pass. Eventually the U.S. hopes to encourage Mexican agents...
...bite, or payoff). Operation Intercept may discourage the amateurs who smuggle hemp across the border on major highways. It will probably have little effect on the professionals who dominate the trade. As a knowledgeable Texas border scout points out, "There are areas out there where a small army could cross without detection...
...Auden's Law, in which the poet, himself a religious man, insists that it is impossible to write religious poetry. Prayer is a dialogue between man and God. No third party need apply. This powerful objection applies also to religious prose. The works of St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Avila are there to warn against imprudent attempts to communicate about the incommunicable. Fortunately Muggeridge (now 66), a highly professional journalist with a sprightly native wit, writes better and with considerably more verve than these celebrated mystics...
...Cross- national comparisons of the performances of national governments, an area "that bears fairly directly on the problem of stability and disorder...
...years ago, the Holy Cross rugby team was a pushover. Last fall, their technique had doubled in sophistication. And tomorrow, when the Crusaders return to Cambridge once again. they'll have a dangerously realistic chance of upsetting Harvard's experienced ruggers...