Word: mount
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Syria could help finance a Disney World on the Golan Heights, and Iraq and Algeria face each other in a super soccer stadium at Sharm el Sheikh. Yassir Arafat could retire on a pension, Anwar Sadat take a job as headwaiter in a kosher restaurant, and Colonel Gaddafi mount his white camel and ride off into the desert forever...
Nobody could mount any kind of offensive attack until the eighth inning, when the Crimson scored its last, and what turned out to be the winning...
...survived a quarter-century of strife and war, but grown and prospered beyond its founders' wildest dreams. Thus on May 7* Israelis will celebrate their nation's 25th anniversary by throwing the biggest bash in its history. The ceremonies will begin at sundown on May 6 at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. There twelve torches will be lighted by surviving heroes of Israel's 1948-49 war of independence. In a separate ceremony. President Ephraim Katzir and the chief of staff, General David Elazar, will light a memorial torch at that holiest of Jewish holy places, the Wailing...
With it all, monthly tabs mount. At $1.50 a page, transcript costs alone (paid to the court reporter) run $8,000 to $9,000. (To date, there have been 20,000 pages of transcript in the 15-week trial.) The phones cost $5,000. The Xerox machine another $5,000; Ellsberg wryly notes that it is much more efficient than the one he used originally. Salaries are another $10,000 a month-ranging from $50 a week to some law students to $185 for the highest-paid nonlawyer. The five attorneys will divide a total fee of just over...
...Orbital Workshop, which contains the astronauts' main living and working quarters; 2) the smaller Multiple Docking Adaptor, which serves as part of the passageway between the Orbital Workshop and the Apollo command ship and contains the complex control panel for Skylab's telescope; 3) the Apollo Telescope Mount, which is the world's first manned solar observatory in earth orbit and contains eight separate telescopes for different types of astronomical observations; and 4) the Airlock Module, which serves as a pressurization chamber for sorties out into space and is the nerve center for the entire station...