Word: objections
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...original U.S. canal treaty that he punched his country's envoy to Washington, Philippe Bunau-Varilla, in the face. Secretary of State John Hay wrote to a U.S. Senator: "You and I know very well how many points there are in this treaty to which a Panamanian patriot could object...
...Kill! Kill!" chanted the vengeful crowd outside Brooklyn's Central Court Building, even though the object of their hatred was nowhere in sight...
...rage against; Haldeman is now grotesque, a man whose activity has become locked around one period in his life, when he was on hand to help twist American history. When Mee finally meets the enemy, the duplicitous villain he had expected turns out instead to be an object of pity. Watergate is an obsession for Haldeman, but Mee does not need to linger over those unpleasant details. His anti-Nixon tirade and his meeting with Haldeman have purged his pent-up anger, and he can calmly await the renewal of the republic...
Elsewhere, Virginia creamed Texas and California to win the Certamen-a classical version of the College Bowl quiz -with state teams battling it out onstage over the lingua mater. "What case is required for the object of vescorl" shot out Questioner James Minter, 25, a candidate at Columbia University for a Ph.D. in classics. Flashing lights signaled the correct answer: "The ablative." Sample sticklers: "What Italian myth figure changed into a woodpecker?" "What Latin emperor was transformed, in a satire, into a pumpkin?" Answers: Picus and Claudius...
...Begin talked to me about refugees, Palestinians. And in his other statements he has said that he did not object to Palestinians being represented in the Arab delegations or in the Jordanian delegation. When pressed, he said in his press conference that if they were identifiable members of the P.L.O. leadership, that he would object. He went on to add immediately, because the P.L.O. are publicly committed to the destruction of Israel. I cannot speak for Mr. Begin [but] if the Palestinian leaders adopted that position [acceptance of Israel's existence] or espoused the U.N. Resolutions...