Word: fightingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with Moslem Pakistan. And there were some Black African nations whose leaders feel them selves bound to support Nasser in the cause of African unity. As speaker after speaker sounded off, the winner of the war in the Middle East found itself in the curious position of having to fight a defensive battle in the U.N. "Israel," said Abba Eban, "stands lonely amongst numerous and powerful adversaries...
...International Airport last week, Podgorny took Nasser's hand and held it high in a boxer's victory gesture. It was almost as if a dazed Sonny Liston, having just been counted out, had staggered to his feet and claimed a knockout over Cassius Clay. "We will fight to victory," the airport crowds chanted. "Down with American imperialism...
Almost as if it believed its own words, Cairo's semiofficial newspaper, Al Ahram, continued to accuse the U.S. of sending its planes to fight for Israel. Now the paper even claimed that the U.S. "planned and led" the attack. "Let no one think we will talk peace with the aggressors," bristled a Cairo newspaper editor. "The war is not over. We are preparing for the second round, and this time we will call the shots." To make sure he would do the shot calling, Nasser sacked his Prime Minister, named himself to the job, organized...
...kept laying the fire in," says Navy Lieut. Augustine Marana, 37, "and just chopped the trees down." The fight raged on into the night by the light of flares," and the next day 250 of the Viet Cong's 300-man force were dead. The U.S. lost...
...First Cry gains its greatest power when it abandons trickery and makes surprisingly caustic side excursions into everyday life in Czechoslovakia: the ugly racial prejudice that surfaces when a black African stays too long in a phone booth and precipitates a fight; the prudish moralism of a policeman who makes Abrhám turn the painting of a nude face down; the arrogance of a movie critic who puts down a "bourgeois Italian film" while ogling a couple of girls in bathing suits. Like many films about the young by the young, The First Cry counts somewhat less...