Word: hardens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...victory is less than total, Safran reasoned, there will be a return to pre-war conditions, with each side toughening its negotiating stance. "The Israeli position will harden as a direct consequence of its loss in blood," he said...
...Chrissie tell it, she will not have to sacrifice her personal life for too long. She insists that she intends to quit the pro game in three to five years, get married and have two to four chil dren. "Too long a tennis career can ruin a girl and harden her," she says. "Ten nis isn't the most important thing in my life. It's so materialistic. Marriage and family are more important, and so is religion - and love. I'd rather be known for being a girl than for being a tennis player...
...claim that he is determined to keep Western Europe "in line" in much the same highhanded way that Brezhnev keeps his despotic hold on the East. Though this is clearly exaggerated, it nonetheless represents a foreboding element in Europe's new view of Washington. If allowed to harden, such attitudes could make "the year of Europe" a fiasco...
...effect of Nixon's January bombing threat was to harden the already obdurate position of the Cambodian guerilla forces led by Prince Sihanouk, whom Nixon refused to speak with during the February 1972 China trip, according to Harrison Salisbury's recent book To Peking and Beyond. The Cambodian resistance leaders alleged on January 26 that the United States had plans to destroy their zone of control, which they claim constitutes 80 per cent of the land area and 90 per cent of the population...
...outcast but indispensable woman, the constant worker. Her mouth. When most of the world has fallen into soft sleep, wrapped in that vague warmth of loved ones, or familiar loneliness, or expensive compromise; this mouth, the whore's mouth sucks again on the lipstick reddened cigarette, and begins to harden. The lips unspeaking cry 'fuck you too'. To the ever demanding flaccid phallus, and the rain of sterility...