Word: gu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...artillery strikes on the Syrian gun emplacements, Arab 130-and 122-mm. shells rained down on the slender column at the rate of ten tons a minute. Barreling straight into bazookas and antitank guns leveled to fire in flat trajectory, the Israeli tankers hit the first fortification, Gu el Aska, head-on at full speed. They pushed aside the barbed wire, thundered heedlessly through a minefield, smashed into bunkers and overran trenches. Some Syrian soldiers were crushed under the tanks; those that jumped aside fired in astonishment at the speeding tanks already bypassing them to continue growling...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU, by Jean Guéhenno. The character and egocentric doctrine of the erratic Rousseau-in many ways the first modern man-are brilliantly displayed in an excellent translation from the French...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU, by Jean Guéhenno. The character and egocentric doctrine of the erratic Rousseau, in many ways the first modern man, are brilliantly displayed in an excellent translation from the French...
...Uttar Pradesh (Nehru's as well as Prime Minister Shastri's home). The officialization of Hindi has long been fought by non-Hindi regions, chiefly four southern states to which Hindi is as foreign as Tex-Mex; they are Madras (which speaks Tamil), Andhra Pradesh (Telu-gu), Kerala (Malayalam) and Mysore (Kannada). Anti-Hindis accuse the Hindis of being out for political gain. In any case, should Hindi become the exclusive official tongue, thousands of civil servants, who do not understand Hindi but get government clerical jobs through their knowledge of English, would be totally adrift...
...Cuban workers dismissed, unless they agree to live on the base or spend their pay, totaling some $6,000,000 a year, at Guantanamo. All this should just about finish the incident -unless Castro wants to escalate the puny battle into a campaign to force the U.S. out of Guántanamo, thereby testing the Johnson Administration's firm ness, just as it is having its full share of troubles in Panama and half a dozen other places...