Word: havoc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...domination of the market by one buyer--the government--adds to the uncertainty. Changes in national defense policy (such as the Eisenhower emphasis on nuclear, rather than conventional weapons) create havoc in the market...
...Egyptian claims to the Gaza Strip or Jordan's claims to Arab Palestine, since both areas had been taken by the Arabs in 1949 "as the result of military aggression and occupation." Nor will the Golan Heights overlooking Upper Galilee be returned to Syria, whose guns had threatened "havoc and destruction for our villages in the valley." To ensure passage of Israeli shipping through the Strait of Tiran and the Suez Ca al, Israel also intends to maintain some sort of control over the Sinai Peninsu la-which, Eshkol suggested, might be turned into a huge demilitarized zone partly...
...that in this last volume they write of an age when to be a popularizer was still considered something brave and even glorious. As Will Durant once said: "History is baroque. It smiles at all attempts to force its flow into theoretical patterns or logical grooves; it plays havoc with our generalizations, breaks all our rules." And with the Durants as guides, it also gives uncommon pleasure...
...picketers represented the International Council of Christian Churches, which calls itself "the only militant church organization challenging the ecumenical movement and exposing the havoc wrought by modernism, Communism, and the growing power of Roman Catholicism...
...have developed a British sense of fair play and justice and an almost embarrassing devotion to the royal family. By ancestry most of them are neither British nor Spanish. Some are Sephardic Jews originally expelled from Spain during the Inquisition; others fled Genoa in the 1790s to escape the havoc of the Napoleonic Wars; many came from Malta to seek work in the British dockyards. Over the years, they have developed into a surprisingly homogeneous population of 25,000 people who are tidy, industrious and bilingual (English and Spanish...