Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...High Gear. Leading the rebellious Kurds is veteran pro-Communist Mustafa Barzani, a onetime mullah (religious teacher) and military boss of a Red-supported puppet republic of Kurdistan just after the war. After the puppet state was dismantled in 1946. Barzani fled to Russia, returned only after Kassem staged his Communist-blessed revolution in Iraq in 1958. Kassem tried to curry favor among the Kurdish tribes to solidify his own power. He promised them Kurdish schools, Kurdish newspapers, a Kurdish political party. So that the Kurds would not get too strong, however, Kassem armed rival Kurdish clans, playing them...
Barzani began last summer by leading his hotheads in raids on isolated Iraqi police outposts, recently shifted his rebellion into high gear after cutting down operations during the winter. Launching a major offensive at the end of March, the Kurds attacked army battalions at Dohuk and Zakho north of Mosul, leaving 50 dead and 150 wounded. When Kassem ordered air strikes near Sulaimaniya against Kurdish villages packed with women and children, the rebels retaliated by sacking some 200 Arab towns, raping the women inhabitants. In cities held by the government, the Kurds have embarked on S.A.O.-style assassination campaigns...
Just outside Chester, Conn., Batchelor suddenly found himself in a traffic crisis that even he had not dealt with in his thousand tries. His brakes failed. Instead of shifting into lower gear, pulling off the road to the right, grabbing for his emergency brake, or simply switching off the ignition and coasting to a stop, Driver Batchelor invited the undertaker. Recognizing what he thought was an open spot ahead, Batchelor swerved left at full speed-into the wrong lane and collision course with a bakery truck. But despite Batchelor's invitation, the undertaker declined. The 74-year-old cartoonist...
...gold drain. "You need dollars. Here is what will get you dollars,'' said Lavaud, handing U.S. officers a list of things that France would like to buy. It included equipment for a gaseous diffusion plant to make enriched uranium, plans for nuclear submarines, propulsion and guidance gear for rocket missiles...
...ball the opening face-off and rifled a pass Lou Williams who converted for the goal. During the afternoon Williams five tallies to be the Crimson's high . At 1:31 of the opening period, Sieglaff dented the Crusader nets the second varsity tally and the moved into high gear...