Word: fightingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would be willing to fight Israel again, he told his fellow rulers, but only if all Arab states turn over half their national income to help prepare for the battle. Since that seemed hardly likely, Nasser quickly added: "We feel the time is not ripe for a military adventure and suggest to the brothers that they consider the possibilities for a political solution to the problems that face us." In other words, negotiate for the return of their land now tightly held by the Israelis...
...gathering of opium; that job belongs for the most part to such primitive tribesmen as the Meo, Ekaw, Bolong, Wa and Yao, who slit the poppy-seed pods for their resin, boil it into sticky raw opium, and roll it into loaves of one to five pounds. The fight grows out of a jurisdictional dispute between tribute-collecting soldiers and smugglers who deliver the stuff into the hands of the two Chinese syndicates that control the opium export from Laos...
Worst of all, the fight seemed to settle nothing. Both sides went off to lick their wounds, buy fresh armaments and ammunition, and presumably have another go at the flower power struggle with all cannon blazing...
...occasion she goes off to Rome for days or weeks to visit her three children by Rossellini-Robertino, 17, and the twins, Ingrid and Isabella, 15. As the result of an acrimonious custody fight the children spend the school year with a governess, vacations with their mother. But the ex-Rossellinis are no longer bitter. He, too, is remarried, to Sonali Das Gupta, his Bombay love...
...ceremonial post (an administrator runs day-to-day operations), easing racial tensions by organizing a civic panel to hear Negro job grievances and working effectively to resettle over 100,000 exiles from Castro's Cuba. Last year he defeated incumbent Governor Hayden Burns in a gloves-off primary fight, but did not have the muscle to match Claude Kirk, who became Florida's first Republican Governor in 94 years...