Word: hurriedness
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Then Dayan telephoned Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and invited the Americans to join the deliberations. Vance, Brzezinski and other members of the U.S. team hurried to the Knesset committee room while Carter remained in his sixth floor suite at the King David Hotel. The talks remained deadlocked. Said one...
It was almost as difficult to discern the battle lines of disengagement as it was to determine what, if anything, the three-week war had accomplished. Most of the fighting took place around Lang Son, a provincial capital twelve miles south of Friendship Pass on Highway 1 leading to Hanoi...
It was intended as a coming-out party for Iran's reborn oil industry. Unfortunately, when Hassan Nazih, the new director of the National Iranian Oil Co. (NIOC), pressed a button that was supposed to start crude oil flowing into the hold of a waiting supertanker, nothing happened. After...
IT BEGINS HOPEFULLY, the bare, carefully-crafted prose interspersed with a Yiddish irony that lightens its mood. Dubin's wife Kitty has a compulsion to smell the gas burners on the stove to make sure they are not leaking. Once she leaves the house without performing the ritual: "Kitty hastily...
Nevertheless, what followed was two hours of charge-trading, screaming, and hurried conferences in the aisles. Most club members suspected that something was wrong, but lacking a plan they voted for candidates on the spur of the moment. Driscoll was destined to be the first victim of the angry club...