Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...purest Arabs, are also among the best fighters, but did not really fight Israel. Arabs fight bravely enough on their own soil-as the Algerians did against the French or the Jordanians in Palestine. Yet, despite all the anti-Israeli passion, few other Arabs are really eager to risk their lives for the Arabs in Palestine. The "Arab nation," which is so often talked about by the leaders, is nothing but "an act of will," says British Arabist Sir Hamilton Gibb. It does not correspond to any visible political entity. Pan Arabism is at once a Mitty-esque dream...
...sent down to the presbyterians for their approval, and finally be approved by the next annual General Assembly), what is called "The Confession of 1967" was presented to the General Assembly meeting in Boston in May, 1966. It included a phrase that urged the pursuit of peace, "even at risk to national security...
While industry squabbles, prices of new homes are rising-5.5% a year since 1962. Ironically, would-be home buyers who wait for interest rates to fall run a real risk of paying more for their housing...
...major forms of protest that have evolved this year, the summer organizing project is likely to have a far more extensive political effect that the draft resistance; it is much easier for the average student dissenter to speak against the war than to risk jail or permanent expatriation as the price of dissidence. Also, most of those who have pledged not to serve in this war have not limited themselves to this kind of protest--and will actively support Vietnam Summer...
...balance of terror," complained the Algiers daily El Moudjahid, has prompted the Russians to "put the preservation of peace before every other consideration" and to relegate their "support for the liberation movements to second place." Even East Germany's Walter Ulbricht was alarmed over Moscow's refusal to risk war. "The nuclear balance between the Soviet Union and the United States," he said, "is to be used as an excuse to start wars of aggression just below the nuclear threshold to eliminate progressive governments...