Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fell into the canal during the 1967 and 1973 wars and the 1969-70 "war of attrition." Commanding the operation is U.S. Rear Admiral Brian McCauley, 52, who directed the American minesweeping of Haiphong harbor. He explained that helicopters will sweep for magnetic, acoustic and pressure mines and also "fashion a map of the canal's bed to show us where all the junk is. During the second stage, called 'Nimbus Moon,' the map will guide the Egyptian and British divers who will defuse or explode all that stuff." No Americans will take part in the actual...
...point in the plan is that the Institute would be under the aegis of the President and Fellows of the University, and would be operated by a tenured faculty member who may or may not affiliate himself, and thus the Institute, with the Afro Department. If established in this fashion, the Institute would have no definite responsibilities to the Afro Department, and depending on the director's discretion, could or could not be available for use by that department...
Playing Favorites. For most of her career as Premier, Mrs. Meir was the unquestioned leader of Israel. She ran the party and the country in stern maternal fashion. She made no excuses for playing favorites-Defense Minister Moshe Dayan became one-or for bearing grudges. Gradually, however, the Labor Party began to lose strength. In the latest general elections, which had to be postponed to December because of the October war, Labor won-but with a reduced representation in the Knesset. Mrs. Meir was forced to bargain earnestly with Religious Party and Liberal Party leaders in order to form...
John Turner's production of The Plain Dealer deserves more attention and praise than it will probably receive. Fascinating and perturbing social contrasts are brought out in a delicate yet piercing fashion. Wycherly's whip lashes out at women, fops, wits, and lawyers as he peers into man's social nature. He beats the sores of hypocrisy and deception so raw that even today they are hard to ignore. His disgust is let loose on an age of paradox and perversity--an age not unlike our own, where a mere consciousness of the profound problems of human life is hardly...
Also part of the proceedings was a black bull ceremony. In ritual fashion, a black bull would be stolen from the people by the king. This theft, which symbolized the demands of the monarchy, would make the people both "angry" and "proud"--a complex of attitudes expressive of their ambivalence about living in an authoritarian nation...