Word: failed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...diplomatic efforts fail, Israeli retaliation seems inevitable. Israel has often mounted punitive raids to redress alleged Arab wrongdoing. Air Algerie flights call regularly at Cairo, which is not far from Israeli airspace. It would be a relatively simple matter for Israeli fighter-interceptors to force one to land at Tel Aviv for use as a bargaining weapon...
Whatever the reason, the dip made the smaller and more vulnerable brokerage houses wonder whether the backlog of paper work could not push them toward the "fail-safe" limit...
...Heinrich hires an English governess called Regina (Jana Štěpaňková) to give the ape-baron enough training to convince a commission that he is competent to take over his rightful inheritance. On the sly, he offers her a handsome reward to fail; Regina, though, does her perfidious best to get Wolfgang's money while she gets...
Shaw took care that his Christians were not carbon copies of each other. As he commented, "All my articulate Christians have different enthusiasms." And in the case of Ferrovius he allowed a would-be martyr to fail at the moment of trial by committing wholesale slaughter. In a striking change from his other roles for the Festival, Charles Cioffi gives Ferrovius a low, gruff voice and makes him a quick-tempered powerhouse, an ogre. Later, when he returns from the arena brandishing a bloody sword, he makes a wonderful effect not by howling, "Cut off this right hand...
...probings and brain-candling, TV ads fail with reassuring regularity reassuring because it means that the masses are still beyond manipulation. Indeed, owing to what the researchers call "the fluid, ever-changing force of subcultures," the viewers are still downright unpredictable...