Word: fours
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...splashdown brawls. Drunken geologists in Houston paraded around with a decorative boulder they had taken from a motel courtyard, explaining that it was a moon rock. A few barefoot guests at the Nassau Bay motel poolside picked up splinters from broken glasses and bottles. And the four-man police force of the city of Webster (adjacent to the Manned Spacecraft Center) gently arrested a dozen happy drunks. The county sheriff's officers, however, seemed unable to find any wrongdoers. "This was a proud crowd," explained Captain Gus George, of the sheriff's office. "You with...
...ended," Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser said last week. "The Two, Three-or even Four-Year War is still continuing. We are at war with Israel." With those belligerent words, spoken in a week that saw ground and air action along the Suez Canal reach new intensity, Nasser effectively scrapped the U.N. Security Council cease-fire of 1967. Had the point of all-out war been reached? Not quite. Despite all the shooting-and the shouting-casualties were minimal in comparison with those suffered during the June 1967 hostilities. But the prospects for peace remained dim. All the efforts...
...Four days later, another air battle erupted over the Suez, and the day's claimed casualties were still heavier. The action began when Israeli craft took to the air to hit at Egyptian artillery. At first, they were unopposed, but Egypt later scrambled half a dozen MIGs. Dogfights flared along the length of the canal. That afternoon, Egypt hit back on a larger scale. More than 40 Egyptian aircraft went after Israeli installations. The Israelis responded with fighters and Hawk antiaircraft missiles, and the battle was on. Late in the day, the opposing propagandists entered the fray. According...
...subject on Monday, church matters and foreign policy on Tuesday, labor and industry on Wednesday, cultural affairs on Thursday, and military and scientific topics on Friday. In the afternoon, he drives his black Mercedes 220 sedan into Madrid for working visits to various ministries. In addition, Juan Carlos spends four or five days a month on trips to factories and construction sites throughout Spain...
...decision was a major break with tradition. It was not such a landmark, however, for the ALC, which recently reached a similar agreement with the larger (3.1 million) and even more liberal Lutheran Church in America. Unlike Missouri, both the ALC and the LCA are themselves the results of four-way mergers by Scandinavian and German churches...