Word: meanness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arab forces combined"? Why doesn't she prove this by going to fight now? After all, it has become clear to the world that Nasser has "brazenly" challenged her to do so. This should be her chance, for wouldn't a total defeat inflicted on the Egyptians mean a welcome end to her troubles? Why is she hesitating? Or will she this time create still another myth-that the Soviet Union is going to send down the Red Army to fight her glorious forces? O David, where is thy sling...
...write the words himself. Though the international community has so far given no recognition to the new regime, Biafra is potentially a viable economic and political state. It produced $250 million worth of crude oil last year and also exports coal and palm-oil products. Gowon faces no mean task in forcing the rebel regime back into the union, especially since leaders in both his Mid-Western and Western regions, including the influential Chief Obafemi Awolowo, have shown no enthusiasm for military action against the East-or for a strong central government...
...result, as the foreign ministers of the Six meet in Brussels this week, they will start talking about how the British application should be handled. That does not mean that Britain will soon get an opportunity to state its case to the Common Market Council. But it does mean that the machinery for dealing with the British is at last being put in motion. Before the Rome conference adjourned, the leaders also agreed to press ahead with the plan to integrate into one organization on July 1 the three agencies of European cooperation-the Common Market, Euratom, and the Coal...
...taping. Listeners and Chickenman fan clubs protested the abortive end. So stations that had already completed the 195 episodes started rerunning them. Orkin ponders launching a second cycle, but that would require bringing back Co-Stars Runyon and Roberts, who have since married and moved to Boston. In the mean time, Orkin has founded Amazon Ace, a cross between Tarzan and the Lone Ranger. Syndicated only six weeks ago the Ace and "his faithful Indian com panion Bernard" have already spread from WCFL Chicago to a nationwide chain of 20 cities...
...bottom, most interesting and most significant of all, were the scholars. They were again divided into two groups: the "nho si" and the "dung si," which mean students who concentrated on Chinese Classics and students who concentrated on "bravery" (fencing, etc. . . .). These scholars worked together to protect the people from arbitrary court magistrates and from arbitrary court magistrates and from the court. They were elected by the local people to help them to safeguard the tradition of "luat vua thua lang" (the laws of the king are inferior to the customs of the villages...