Word: headed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Leaders of the PLO say privately they are now resigned to accept Israel's existence as a fact of life. For example, PLO head Yasser Arafat told visiting American black leaders last month he supports a U.N. resolution that, in part, "provides for the sovereignty of all states" in the Middle East. This concession reflects the PLO's search for legitimacy and echoes its general shift of direction since 1973 from terrorist tactics to diplomatic channels. Of course, the PLO still includes terrorist elements but they will subside only if moderation and diplomacy prove more effective than terrorism...
...Pirates added two runs in the 8th as the Orioles defense broke down again. After catcher Ed Ott singled with one out, Phil Garner stroked a line drive to left which outfielder Benny Ayala charged in an attempt to snare the ball. The ball, however, sailed over his head, leaving Pirate runners...
...Where have the last feelings of decency and self-respect gone when even our statesmen, in other ways a very unprejudiced kind of man and practical anti-Christians through and through, still call themselves Christians today and go to Communion?...A young prince at the head of his regiments, splendid as the expression of his people's egoism and presumption--but without any shame professing himself a Christian!...The practice of every hour, every instinct, every valuation which leads to action is today anti-Christian what a monster of falsity modern man must be that he is nonetheless not ashamed...
Singe my white head...
...opening scene, famous for its courtly formality, its symmetry, and its fairy-tale irrationality, looks completely straightforward until you notice the Fool wandering around in a squat, waving a wooden gyroscope over his head like some mystical wand. The standard swipes, grunts, and lunges of the Shakespearian sword-fight punctuate the duel between Edgar and Edmund, but the preceding battle between France's forces and the English army becomes a strange slow-motion dumbshow on Cain's stage...