Word: foment
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Closing School. The colonel might have been exceeding his instructions. But the Libyans were taking no chances. Last week the government fired its Egyptian attorney general, expelled seven of Libya's 600 Egyptian teachers, and, just to be sure the remainder had no chance to foment further trouble, closed all schools until further notice...
There, steaming from Istanbul to Athens in the Mediterranean, is Vice Admiral Harry D. Felt's Sixth Fleet-soon to include the bristling guided-missile cruiser Canberra*-offering defense-in-depth to NATO's long, thin southern flank and imposing its stable strength on Middle Eastern foment. There, riding at anchor in the soft swell of Okinawa's Buckner Bay, is Vice Admiral Stuart Ingersoll's Seventh Fleet, ready to turn its carrier-keyed task force toward the first break in Asia's ominous calm (a calm that might well not exist were...
...contained in a circular sent to 470 U.S. heart specialists by an organization called the American Research Foundation of Princeton, N.J. Last week the American Medical Association indignantly advised doctors what to do with the questionnaires: throw them in the wastebasket, "to prevent the hysteria that such information could foment...
...flat in London's fashionable Belgravia, passed his time reading, attending the theater, discussing everything from art to EDC with old friends, and in general playing the part of a serious-minded and well-behaved West End gentleman. Britons came to admire the Kabaka's refusal to foment trouble; they were even more impressed by the unchanging loyalty of his people back home, who adamantly refused to accept any other king. As the months passed, the Colonial Office, under the direction of a new minister, Alan Lennox-Boyd, came to the reluctant conclusion that the whole thing might...
...leave the Greek and Turkish forces in Cyprus to fight out old grudges. Yet the actual figures recorded in the U.N. indicate that over 80 percent of the is land are Greek in language and religion, and that the Turkish population is so small that it would not dare foment a civil...