Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...instrument panel starts acting up, and the saucer shines a blinding light on the truck. The curious electrician pokes his head out the window and tries to focus his eyes on the UFO, but he is cowed by the light. Suddenly, the electrician's facial expressions seem to indicate that the alien beings inside the saucer are communicating with him telepathically, probably trying to force the innocent earthling to commit some dastardly deed for the invaders...
...Jewish people, children are the focus of life. Whatever the Jew has or doesn't have, as long as things will be better for the children all is well. But now these children, who have grown up and are applying to college and med school and law school, are finding that many of the places in these schools are going to minority students who may have gotten lower grades and test scores than they have...
...famous by working hard in these elite schools and going on to top-rated colleges around the country. As the New York City public school system declined--as the result of poverty, incompetence, apathy and bureaucratic ineptness on a huge scale--these schools more and more became the focus of middle class hopes for the future of the children and their education...
...small band immediately struck up the stirring strains of Hava Nagila, the popular Israeli folk song. Said Tal.later: "Can you imagine what it was like for me to hear that song played in Egypt? It was like a dream." Moving about the capital, other Israelis often found themselves the focus of friendly curiosity. Reported TIME Photographer David Rubinger, an Israeli citizen: "My left arm is blue from people pinching me to see if I'm real...
...could be more obscure than Tromelin. Understandably so. It is a tear-shaped chunk of sand less than one mile long and 700 yards wide. Its flora consists of four coconut palms and some nondescript bushes that submerge whenever the sea turns rough. Nonetheless, Tromelin has become the focus of a heated political controversy. Three nations claim it: France, which currently controls it, Mauritius and Madagascar (formerly Malagasy). Their feud may have to be resolved by the International Court of Justice in The Hague...