Word: milke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Refugees from the Palestinian-dominated town of Damur, twelve miles south of Beirut, swarmed last week into the capital, seeking refuge from the bombing. Four hundred refugees made their way into the abandoned Concorde Theater, where they slept on the concrete floor without blankets. There was no milk for their children, though the Red Cross had provided some canned food. Said a 90-year-old woman, gesturing at her squalid surroundings: "I am a Palestinian and look at what Palestinians are today-nothing but rubbish." Mustafa Kamal, 37, a baker from Damur, came to the theater with his five children...
...after all the moral contaminations associated with the war in Viet Nam. Wisconsin Governor Lee Dreyfus was president of the University of Wisconsin's Stevens Point campus at the height of Watergate. "In the early seventies," he remembers, "we had a group on cam pus weaned on the milk of dissent, convinced that the system had been subverted. Watergate was what turned them around. It proved to us all how incredibly strong our system...
...University of Notre Dame, would not appear to have a lot in common. But this year they are all set to be included in that uncommon nominator, the Guinness Book of World Records: Williams for blowing the largest bubble-gum bubble (19¼ in.), Hollingsworth for balancing a milk bottle on his head while walking 18½ miles (a truly dying art), and Father Hesburgh for accumulating more honorary degrees than anyone else ever has. Next month Hesburgh will surpass Guinness's current record holder, former President Herbert Hoover, who had 89. Hesburgh's 90th will come from...
...years. His daughter Theresa, 19, and son Willis, 20, are the fourth generation of Browns on the place. "Mud season's not so bad as it used to be," says Brown. "We used to have to hitch up the horses to the wagon and draw out the milk in cans to the nearest hard road to be collected. That would go on for six weeks every year. Roads got better once they had to get the buses through to these consolidated schools. And the bulk truck comes every day to pick up the milk. Everything's changed...
...been a hard year to be a Zionist. Peace between Israel and its neighbors seems a distant prospect; rejectionism appears the prevailing sentiment on all sides. My earlier visions of revitalizing Jewish tradition in the sunny land of Milk and Honey have been rudely shunted aside. Perhaps now is not the time for illusions of any sort, rather for a response to the immediacy of the present conflict with realistic analyses of the situation and alternatives to present trends. It is not the time to give up on Israel, rather to change what needs changing and to maintain a spirit...