Word: hurriedness
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Levy's radioed alert that his plane had been commandeered rang top-level alarms in Israel. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan and Chief of Staff General David Elazar hurried to the airport to supervise the troops mustered to meet the jet. As soon as Levy touched down in the Tel...
"Irreconcilable differences" is the term in California divorce law that covers a multitude of marital problems, and pretty, Dutch-born Mieke Tunney, 35, has used it to sue for dissolution of her 13-year marriage to California's Democratic Senator John V. Tunney, 37. In addition to alimony, child...
Who were those two men quaffing a friendly beer together in the Bundestag cafeteria? They were, as it happened, none other than West Germany's two foremost political rivals. Only the week before, Opposition Leader Rainer Barzel had tried and failed by a bare margin of two votes to...
Philipp Scheidemann, the Social Democratic Party's deputy leader, was having a bowl of potato soup in the Reichstag dining room when he was told that the Kaiser had abdicated and that Karl Liebknecht, the left-wing firebrand, was about to proclaim Germany a Soviet republic. To head him...
President Nixon reacted swiftly to save his program. After hurried meetings with top aides, including Treasury Secretary John Connally and Budget Boss George Shultz, Nixon declared: "I shall not be deterred by the disaffection of a few union leaders who represent only 17% of America's 80 million wage...