Word: reverting
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...Mediterranean coastal strip was given up by Israeli troops last midweek under and Israeli "assumption" that it would not revert to Egyptian control...
...colonialism's notorious evils. For the partnership between king and company has been based from the first on strict terms of U.S. noninterference in Saudi Arabia's domestic policies. The royalties Aramco pays provide 90% of the government's revenues. Without Aramco, Saudi Arabia would revert to a black-tent kingdom of camels, date palms and holy places. But no U.S. adviser has his office in the palace compound (as the British ambassador did in Jordan), no company agent issues authoritative suggestions to Saud's government officials (as Anglo-Iranian did in Iran). The result...
London's stories, first read by a generation that was to enter World War I, had a recurring theme: man could revert to barbarism or adapt to civilization. Much of the fascination of London's work and life lay in the fact that he could never decide, for himself or for his characters, which footprints of what gigantic hound to follow-the wolf of the wilderness or the Saint Bernard of civilization...
...years vanish in an orgy of limousines, caviar and wedding receptions, roars like a wounded bull elephant. Debbie's best friend .blubbers her tragedy-with her husband unemployed, she cannot afford the matron of honor's gown. Appalled by these developments, Debbie and her fellow revert to Plan 1. They get married quietly; Father Borgnine is free to invest his nest egg in a taxi, and Bette Davis becomes rather suddenly and magically reconciled to a life she hates...
...without some new witticism from Nikita Khrushchev, some new revision of history, some political prisoner rehabilitated, some old scoundrel exposed. Every gesture may yet prove a fraud, or the Kremlin's masters-finding that small concessions lead to wider demands-may try to take it all back and revert to proved severities. But it was no longer enough to mock each concession as unreal, or to greet each one with the declaration that the Communists are still tyrants (which they are), or that the West must keep its guard up (which it must...