Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expose yourself in the market-place; spew up your guts for the inspection of the least passer-by, vanish like water-like snow falling on a dark river...
...that Israel's traditional response to commando activity, a retaliation raid in massive force, only serves to steel the will of the fedayeen and win them new allies among the Jordanian people. Last March, an armored column of more than 1,000 Israeli men punched across the Jordan River to destroy a guerrilla base at Karamah. They succeeded, but Karamah became the fedayeen Alamo. In the furious battle, as El Fatah recounts it, one youth strapped a bundle of TNT around his waist and jumped on an Israeli tank, blowing himself up with it. From the surrounding hills...
Thus for all the Israelis' contempt for the raiders, there is evidence that they are worried. Recently, Israel closed the Allenby Bridge over the Jordan River to truck traffic, reversing its own policy of keeping connections between Jordan and the West Bank open. Now trucks coming from Jordan must unload on one side, and the goods are reloaded into Israeli vehicles on the other side, all under the watchful eyes of po- lice. Police barricades have been set up outside Jerusalem and more green-be-reted civil guards called up to reserve duty. At Israeli schools, teachers...
...beer bottles filled with a mixture of oil and gasoline. He set a small, pencil-shaped fuse timed to explode an hour later, and was three-quarters of a mile away when he heard the blast. He escaped by hiking the 22 miles from Jerusalem to the Jordan River...
...nothing worthwhile. Then, after drilling through the permafrost to 9,500 ft., a consortium of Atlantic-Richfield and Humble Oil last spring brought in a well named Prudhoe Bay State No. 1. When high-grade oil in sufficient flow was located seven miles away at a second well, Sag River State No. 1, oilmen knew that they had struck a major field...