Word: salient
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young Israeli farmers who labor, gun in hand, in nearby desert settlements, the Gaza strip is an intolerable threat to their lives and lands. To the Egyptians patrolling its long salient of indefensible dunes, it remains a symbol of Arab defiance against unconfessed defeat. Behind the 20-inch-wide furrow that passes for its frontier, 219,000 Arab refugees squat in sandy squalor, existing only on U.N. charity and staring balefully across the border at the slopes now green with Israeli corn...
...Trials. What had been the motive for the murders? Robbery? Sex? Sheer perversity? No one could say, and everyone had a different theory. Most of the salient evidence had been trampled underfoot on a muddy road more than two years before. What was left had been talked to shreds in months of contradic tory testimony. On the eve of his summing up, the prosecuting attorney was struck with laryngitis and had to rush off to the hospital. The presiding judge himself threw up his hands. "I've seen a lot of trials in my day," he began-and could...
Tickets have gone up again!!! Aside from any consideration of the caliber of the games we will witness, we would like to make a few salient points concerning the raised prices...
...clear that they were anxious to keep on talking, if only to blame the West for the impending break. They had their bait ready in military maps. Though political talks were deadlocked, the Communists might tempt a new French government to keep talking by yielding an acre here, a salient there, on the tried & true pattern of Panmunjom...
...Rare Exception. Against these charges, a defensive McCarthy salient was sketched out by his request to the Pentagon for the number of times since Pearl Harbor that Congressmen have intervened with the armed forces on behalf of servicemen. McCarthy's request made no distinction between incidents of legitimate congressional concern for constituents and demands accompanied by threats of reprisal against the armed-service departments. The Pentagon answered that demands for special treatment of individuals are "rare." Navy Secretary Robert Anderson, reflecting the view of the three services, said he knew of no case in which a Congressman "has persisted...