Word: establish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outskirts of town, a lonely concrete boundary marker wished us PLEASANT JOURNEY. We then passed the memorial to Rhodesia's pioneers, who trekked the same route in 1890 to establish "Fort Vic" as the colony's first permanent white settlement. Twenty miles south of Fort Victoria, our escorts donned crash helmets and goggles and manned their machine guns, mostly water-cooled Brownings, capable of firing 1,200 to 1,500 rounds a minute. For the next 100 miles they remained tensely alert as the terrain changed...
...early Israeli attempt to stop the dropouts involved trying to establish an air link between Moscow and Tel Aviv. In that way, Russian Jews might be flown directly to Israel, thus eliminating the Vienna stopover and the refugees' option to go elsewhere. When the Soviets refused to sanction the new air route, Israeli officials tried to persuade HIAS and other Jewish agencies to cut off all aid to the dropouts in Vienna. If this happened, Russian Jews seeking to come to the U.S. would be discouraged from applying to leave. This would sharply reduce emigration from the U.S.S.R...
...sagging clotheslines. The graffiti ("Wednesday is Prince Spaghetti Day") seems an unnecessary intrusion. Unfortunately the set, with its scaffolds and dangling ropes, is never fully explored. John Magoun's lighting is downright incompetent; areas go dark and light quite abruptly for no discernible reason. Anne Higonnet's costumes help establish an endearingly seedy atmosphere, although Scapino himself should show a bit more panache and the two ingenues should, to be blunt, show a bit more skin...
...council will hold a public hearing on December 8 to discuss the Cambridge residency requirements and attempt to establish more uniform residency laws for the city, Graham said...
...administration has always had a sort of ad hoc attitude where they deal with each situation as it comes up. We are the first ones to try to establish a formal procedure for dealing with disability problems," she said...