Word: phrase
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...refugees now living in Lebanon. The Beirut government angrily declined the invitation, and Premier Selim Hoss dismissed the Begin offer as "blackmail." Lebanon needed the Syrians to maintain order, said Hoss, and in any case the matter was none of Israel's business. Ever ready with an inflammatory phrase, Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat vowed that the Palestinian struggle would continue "until we overrun Begin's offices in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem...
...driving a tractor across the cornfields. Mrs. Oberhauser said their first lunch there went well: "They didn't touch the potatoes, and they looked at the green beans a long time before eating them, but they each had two hamburgers." Donna Knoll, 56, came by with a Vietnamese phrase book to help her new neighbors learn English. Carol Bailey took some of the family out shopping for shoes, and Larry Bailey planned a trip to Fort Dodge to get everybody Social Security numbers. Said Iowa Refugee Service Center Director Colleen Shearer: "Don't people spend their whole lives...
During their discussions with members of the Engelhard family, members of the gift committee proposed an alternative wording for the plaque that would have dropped the phrase, "In memory of Charles W. Engelhard," a source close to the discussions said. Family members reportedly unilaterally rejected this alternative...
...Trudeau convincingly won the Liberal Party leadership and proceeded to sweep the country in dynamic fashion. The Canadian media coined the phrase "Trudeaumania" to describe the prevalent attitude at the polls. Four years later, Trudeau's charisma failed to affect as many voters; seemingly unconvinced by the party's slogan, "The land is strong," the electorate gave Trudeau a tenuous minority government after the majority mandate of '68. Predictably, the weakened government fell in 1974, and things looked grim for the Liberals heading into the July election...
Take the gap. White phrase for leave the country, derived from rugby maneuver of breaking past other players. The emigration route, once known as the Chicken Run, is today widely referred to as the Owl Run, because it is now considered more wise than cowardly to take...