Word: dente
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sunday morning, after nearly a day of intense fighting, Israeli forces had seized the initiative on both fronts. The Egyptians began to fall back, having failed to put enough tanks across the canal during the night. They also failed to dent Israel's air supremacy, and in the early hours of the second day of fighting, the Egyptian air force did not even take to the air to support ground troops. Israeli planes penetrated deep into Egypt, knocking out missile systems and other defenses. Defense Minister Dayan said that the mop-up might take several days, but he predicted...
According to the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer, Haldeman tried to get North Carolina Republicans to "dig up" any information that might discredit Senator Ervin before his committee investigating Watergate opened its hearings. Haldeman's approach, as confirmed by TIME, was made in phone calls to Harry Dent, a former Special Counsel to the President. Dent passed the Haldeman suggestion on to Frank Rouse, North Carolina's Republican chairman. Both Dent and Rouse considered Ervin's integrity unassailable. They gave Haldeman no help...
...factors involved in whether−and how vigorously−he should seek the presidency. His intimates insist that he has not decided whether to reach for it. Some are not even sure that he wants the job. "He just doesn't give a toot," contends Harry Dent, counsel to the Republican National Committee. "He's got a lot of reluctance in him. He had to think a lot about going on the ticket again last fall...
While the city's black community is represented by Owens and Graham on the Council and Charles Pierce on the School Committee, the more populous Portuguese segment, largely located in East Cambridge, has no effective voice in either body. Whether it will make a dent in a political system still largely shared by old-line Irish and Italian pols and CCA liberals remains a question mark. Since many Cambridge Portuguese are not U.S. citizens and voter registration is low among those who are, the poor showing of previous Portuguese candidates will likely repeat in November...
Fire in the Lake failed to dent the barriers in my mind that prohibit objective thinking about the war. The book was too mystical and detached to have anything to do with the country I remember...