Word: dealt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more militant and left-leaning Arab chiefs rattled threats against Israel, called for a "second round" of war when the time is ripe and made some big talk about damaging Britain and the U.S. with economic boycotts. "The Arab resistance will go on," cried Boumediene. "Continuous blows will be dealt to those who violate the sanctity of our countries and our peoples...
...born in 1836 in Galicia, then part of Austria, the son of a police commissioner. His early books were histories, which critics found competent enough. But when he turned to fiction, he was a Jekyll gone Hyde. His short stories and most of his 90 novels all dealt with depravity. The theme: girl beats boy. Venus in Furs, his most widely read book, was typical of the rest, though hardly as explicit as some of today's sex fare: Wanda von Dunayev, an imperious Amazon, swaggers through a series of near pornographic episodes, whip in hand, abject lover...
From the moment that New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison dealt himself into the Kennedy assassination controversy last fall, he has forced up the ante with one bizarre theory after another. First he announced a plot involving New Orleans Businessman Clay Shaw, ex-Airline Pilot David Ferrie and Lee Harvey Oswald, eventually linking them with Jack Ruby. Later he charged that a murder team of anti-Castro Cubans had planned the killing, using Oswald as a decoy. Next Big Jim claimed that the CIA and FBI were aware of these plots and were covering up. So, too, he said, were...
...capital; 20 truckloads of pro-Thieu troops were reported en route to the city. Though the rumors proved false, the nation had good reason to be upset. A break between Ky and Thieu could have split the armed forces into rival camps, paralyzed the war effort and dealt a mortal blow to South Viet Nam's fragile experiment in constitutional government...
...grave error of those who criticize our involvement in Vietnam is to assume that we are a small and heroic and perilously situated minority. We are nothing of the sort. In times past in the United States popular opinion and official persecution have dealt rather harshly with dissent. Lives have been ruined and men silenced. There has always seemed some special liklihood of this when the primitive emotions of war have been released. But this does not happen and will not happen when vast numbers, including an overwhelming proportion of the young and the articulate, are involved. One wonders, indeed...