Word: reach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is no more perilously unstable area in the world. Israel, despite its overwhelming victory in last year's war, grows increasingly frustrated as it finds peace with its encircling Arab neighbors still beyond reach. The Arab countries, their armies and air forces rebuilding with major Soviet aid and advice, refuse to accept fully their defeat or abandon completely their long-range goal of eliminating Israel. The more responsible Arab leaders, including Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser and Jordan's King Hussein, know that any early attack on Israel would only result in another resounding defeat...
...former Israeli Chief of Staff Itzhak Rabin, even though he has no garage, and for wounding Defense Minister Moshe Dayan last March, who was actually hurt in an archeological cave-in. After Israel's independence day parade last May, El Fatah crowed that "a suicide force managed to reach the rear of the parade and shell it with rockets and mortars. Our forces destroyed a number of tanks that were seen to go up in flames." This remarkable event was entirely invisible to Israelis and foreign dignitaries watching the parade. When a $1,000,000 fire damaged Tel Aviv...
After Suez, El Fatah-was founded as a strictly Palestinian force outside Nasser's reach...
...withering fire on Israeli troops, who had to fight their way home, taking high casualties. Jordan's King Hussein went on television after the battle ended and declared, in words that have since been taken up as a rousing slogan throughout the Arab countries, "I think we may reach a position where we are all fedayeen...
After back-and-forth action, the Harvard offense suddenly exploded and scored three goals in 22 seconds to put the game out of reach for B.U. George Murphy scored the first with an assist from Dwight Ware. The sophomore line of Owen-Cavanagh-DeMichele then came on the ice and Owen scored twice, the first assisted by Cavanagh, the second by Cavanagh and sophomore Terry Driscoll...