Word: rub
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jews in the more remote settlements, life is riskier. These are the communities that rub most against their Arab neighbors, partly because the Jewish residents are so aggressive in asserting their presence. Two weeks ago, hundreds of children from the hilltop settlements around Karnei Shomron marched down the road past Arab villages, chanting Israeli slogans and carrying signs heralding 20 years of settlement. To the Jewish settlers, such actions are not provocative but legitimate. Says Settlement Secretary Avner Vered: "These are religious people who believe they have the right to live all over Israel. When more Jews come here, nobody...
There is a rub however. Defining beforehand precisely who is or is not a controversial speaker is not always easy. Anti-Israel and pro-Ku Klux Klan speakers are clearly controversial. But do pro-Socialist and pro-Capitalist speakers--say, Paul Sweezey, editor of Monthly Review, and George Gilder, head of Manhattan Institute, respectively--fit the controversial label? Martin Kilson...
...private Mass hoped for by the Pinochets, but prayed with them briefly in the palace chapel, an event that was broadcast on the government-owned television channel. Pinochet is eager to show he is not a pariah and hopes the goodwill extended to John Paul by ordinary Chileans will rub off on him. Chile's bishops had initially invited the Pope to come and celebrate the peaceful resolution of a territorial dispute between Chile and Argentina that nearly led to war before a Vatican- brokered peace agreement was signed in 1984. John Paul, who is no stranger to powerful military...
...young Democrats will also get to rub elbows on Sunday with representatives form the different '88 presidential campaigns, including staff members working for Gov. Dukakis, Gary Hart and Jesse Jackson...
WHILE THEIR alliance may seem odd, the position both sides rally around is perfectly defensible and not all that new. However, the rub is that theirs is a purely philosophical argument, the direct result of their reflections upon human nature and notions of individuality: What is a woman? they ask. Is she first and foremost an autonomous individual, a member of a sex or a constituent part of a broader community...