Word: fastnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finish what I have started," he said. On the eve of election, he was confronted with two simultaneous crises, the Hungarian Revolution and the Anglo-French invasion of Suez. Ike did nothing to stop the Russians in Hungary?there was almost nothing he could do?but he put a fast brake on the European allies. In both instances, his judgment was probably correct. Suez might have been avoided by more astute American diplomacy, however, and the Eisenhower Administration did little thereafter to ease the Arab-Israeli confrontation that even now seriously threatens world stability...
...meal as incomplete without a good wine. Would St. Paul, Calvin or Luther, he asks, have opened "bottles of Welch's Grape Juice in the sacristy before a service?" He dismisses synthetic foods as almost blasphemous and his gorge rises on the subject of dieting: "When you fast, fast; when you feast, feast." Neither prim nor prudish, he considers women, like pastries, a special delight: "A woman is like an aging strudel-not always crisp on the outside, but always good on the inside...
...Bobby-all 5 ft. 11 in., 175 Ibs. of him-justifies his price tag every minute of play. Fearlessly aggressive, he once spotted Detroit's Gordie Howe 30 lbs. and lifted him clear oft the ice. Orr also has, as Teammate Ted Green puts it, "18 speeds of fast," and he is equally effective on offense. Says Toronto Defenseman Tim Horton: "Bobby's biggest asset is the way he moves the puck. He skates better than most forwards and has a wonderful sense of anticipation." No less an authority than Bobby Hull admits that Orr should become...
...that either statesmen or generals will agree on the peace-winning potential of the most imaginative of the bureau's ideas: "Drop 50,000 Honda motor scooters by parachute on Hanoi. In the hands of Vietnamese riders, they are peculiarly lethal weapons; and when they are not moving fast enough to cause casualties, they can be counted on to tie up the city in war-stopping traffic jams...
...Nizhne-Mikhailovka, four miles distant, word of the attack flashes to Far Eastern military headquarters at Khabarovsk and on to Moscow. Soviet casualties have been heavy, and hard-liners among the Kremlin leadership persuade other Politburo members that Mao must be crushed now, before China becomes a nuclear superpower. Fast-moving, heavily equipped Russian armored columns stab across the Amur and Ussuri rivers into Manchuria, brushing aside China's infantry. A Soviet armored division knifes into Manchuria from the west, across the Mongolian border. Fleets of Ilyushin bombers pound Chinese airfields, troop concentrations and industrial centers across the entire...