Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...groundswell of Israeli disagreement over Begin's policies, no sense of growing national doubt. According to the most recent polls, Begin enjoys the support of 68% of his countrymen. Yet he is widely criticized today for his handling of the peace talks, not for allowing the negotiations to founder, much less for his unbending stand on many issues, but for offering too much too soon. Many Israelis believe that his opening offer of Egyptian sovereignty over all of the Sinai was a mistake, even though Begin later indicated that he wanted a special U.N. status for Sharm el Sheikh, retention...
...crimes, charged Truscott, were part of a scheme by Allen & Co. to show that all was well, in order to keep the stock price high and thus make a big profit. Even more serious was the article's suggestion that Charles Allen Jr., 75, the firm's frail founder, had associations with the Mafia...
...like to see real manhood and womanhood once again valued and the current trend to unisex reversed. I would like to see greater emphasis on physical health and fitness, and a much greater organization of the young to stop them drifting into street corners, drugs and degeneration. --Mr. Tyndall, founder and chairman, The National Front...
...history of the Gibbsians' lesser godhead, Schutt, is better known. A distant relative of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, Schutt was the founder of the Gibbs Historical Society, a front organization for the Gibbsians. Portraits of Schutt's head are displayed everywhere on February 21--"Gibbs Day"--sometimes adorned with the traditional tie and lab coat of the lesser godhead...
...industrial melodrama, a product not known to sell many tickets, the thing starts out simply enough: Loren Hardeman Sr., 86, founder of the Bethlehem Motor Co. back in the heroic days of car manufacturing, is tired of vegetating down in Florida. He wants to make his comeback by manufacturing "the Betsy," a sort of Model T cum Volkswagen for the '70s, ecologically sound, energy conserving, sensible. He hires a stud race-car driver, one Angelo Perino (Tommy Lee Jones), to honcho the project back at the factory, sneaking it by Loren Hardeman III, the old man's grandson...