Word: roundly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Barlev Line. "There is no enthusiasm for the preparations," reports TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs, "but rather resignation. Egyptians are sadly reconciled to another round, simply because it somehow seems inevitable, and even at the cost of another 'setback.' They say they cannot allow a status quo to become established that might cost them Sinai as the price of a permanent settlement." Declared a government spokesman: the Israelis "are arming our territory against...
...that the sudden flare-up had primarily a diplomatic purpose. Just before the exchanges, Nasser's personal representative, Mahmoud Fawzi, showed up in London and Paris, pressing the argument that unless Israel withdraws at least partially from the canal, the Arabs will consider themselves forced to fight another round. In the Israeli view, as Foreign Minister Abba Eban put it, Nasser simply staged the barrage "to cause panic on an international scale" at a time when the Nixon Administration is considering a big-power approach to a settlement...
...Harvey's youngest son, is a gentle, strong, intelligent 14-year-old, but he seems condemned, by some inexplicable self-hatred, to a condition of permanent, sickening clumsiness. He knocks things over, breaks them, hurts himself. "In the kitchen he was carefully watched, and at the Whipples' round dining table, the chairs were always arranged so that Horace's arc of space was several degrees wider than the others'." With a few simple and subtle strokes, the author shows that Horace is not funny, as he seemed at first, or merely lovable, as he seemed next...
...also a big psychological factor in Harvard's consolation round game with Michigan Teach--a game Harvard eventually won, 6-5, in double overtime...
...Walls allows one indistinguishable chapter to fade into another. The story becomes a deja vue recounting of yet another round of position papers, unsure negotiations, and Rudd's explitives. The magnified detail often amuses--the story relates solemnly in a footnote how one of the authors was mistaken for an SDS negotiator and was handed a piece of rope. He hid it, he records for history, under a pile of monographs where it was soon forgotten...