Word: game
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statistics that Nixon used, matched against figures marshaled by the Administration to rebut him, added to the mystification of the layman. But close examination suggests that Nixon was being less than responsible in playing a nuclear numbers game...
...truck drivers carrying loads of tomatoes and paprika to Yugoslav markets wander off the main road and somehow blunder into Yugoslav troops in border regions. Tito fears that Soviet agents, working with die-hard ethnic groups, will make an attempt on his life. But both sides can play that game. Last week three leaders of an exile group of anti-Tito Croatians were found shot to death in their Munich office, and other Croatian exiles put the blame on Tito's secret service...
When the first shells whistled in, off-guard Israeli troops were playing a Sabbath soccer game. Within moments along the 70-mile Suez front, Egyptian gunners had opened up with everything from long-range artillery to Russian-made Katyusha rockets. In all, 15 Israeli soldiers were killed and 34 wounded, mostly in the first rounds. The Israelis fired back, accounting for five Egyptian dead and nine wounded. It was the second artillery ambush by the Egyptians in seven weeks, and the first in which the Israelis emerged second best...
When Warren Beatty was tapped for the role opposite Liz Taylor in The Only Game in Town, everybody ducked, expecting the temperament to fly. But rarely has there been such serenity on the set. Liz loves Warren and vice versa. Warren even indulges in a bit of costar counseling now and then, what with Burton on a nearby set playing a homosexual opposite Rex Harrison. "Don't worry, Elizabeth," reassured Warren during their first kissing scene, "at this very moment your husband is kissing Rex on the other...
Yale ended a three-game losing streak at Hanover, defeating Dartmouth, 5-2. Sunny Oyekan's three goals, two of them in the final period, clinched the win for Yale...