Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These reports are sporadic and they can not reflect the complete truth about the situation in Cambodia. If they are true, these actions must be condemned. The new government of Cambodia may have to resort to strong measures against a few to gain democratic socialism for all Cambodians. And we support the United Front in the pursuit of its presently stated goals...
...also turn back to Egypt the Abu Rudeis oilfields captured during the Six-Day War. Egypt agreed in writing to let Israeli nonmilitary cargoes pass through the Suez Canal. Both sides agreed that the Middle East conflict should not be resolved by force and that neither side should "resort to the threat or use of force or military blockade." That fell short of the formal promise of nonbelligerency that Jerusalem demanded of Cairo, but the statement was the closest thing to a declaration of peaceful intentions toward Israel made by an Arab nation since the 1948 Armistice...
What Shanker did was to resort to demagoguery. He predicted that the school board's budget cuts of $300 million would make New York City's schools "far and away the worst in the entire United States." Classrooms would be packed with as many as 45 pupils, causing "many youngsters to explode, throwing their classes into chaos, vandalizing their schools or assaulting their classmates." Finally, he stated that "any parent who possibly can will now leave the city"−a warning that could only do more harm to the image of a city already in deep trouble...
...Flying Author Erica Jong of her first bedding with a Columbia University sophomore. "I don't remember it being painful or bad," she disclosed, "nor do I remember the earth moving." Columnist Art Buchwald succumbed to the charms of a 30-year-old chambermaid at the Long Island resort where he worked one summer. He was 15 at the time, said Buchwald, "and I think she seduced me." Comedienne Joan Rivers spent $42 on a brand new dress for the big event. "The whole thing lasted about a minute and a half," she reported, "including buying the dress." Actor...
...could follow suit. It is unlikely but not inconceivable that these economically desperate states, feeling they have nothing to lose, might try to use nuclear blackmail to get more help from the West. As Economist Robert Heilbroner writes in his highly pessimistic An Inquiry into the Human Prospect, "The resort to ultimate tactics is surely not to be dismissed as mere fantasy...