Word: seesaws
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Seesaw Battle. At dawn Tuesday, the main Syrian drive, backed by Christian rightist troops, rolled from Sofar toward the last two Palestinian-leftist strongholds east of Beirut, the once fashionable resort towns of Bhamdoun and Aley. Slipping around Bhamdoun under cover of darkness, 4,000 Syrian troops attacked from the west. They waged a seesaw battle through the streets of the town, leaving heavy casualties on both sides, and the stubborn Palestinian resistance slowly crumbled. By week's end, with Syrian tanks established in the main square and parts of the town ablaze, only a few pockets of Palestinians...
Competition abounds, In the elite eights division, a seesaw contest between Vespers Boat Club of Philadelphia and Princeton provided a spectacle through the threemile course, with a narrow victory going to Vespers...
...Seesaw. Thus what once looked like a Carter runaway has turned into one of the tightest presidential races in U.S. history. Making the present situation even more volatile, the Yankelovich study found, 52% of the voters still have not firmed up their final voting plans, in part because so many are unenthusiastic about both major candidates (see box below). Said Pollster Daniel Yankelovich: "Our TIME survey suggests that the race will seesaw back and forth until the very last minute, reflecting the voters' agonized and disappointed frame of mind...
...Russell most is turmoil, and where there are not sufficient amounts available in his subject's life, he will supply his own. So in Mahler the composer (Robert Powell) imagines himself in the midst of a pop fantasy involving Cosima Wagner, Nazis, Crosses, Jewish stars and a crimson seesaw; this is Russell's representation of Mahler's conversion from Judaism to Catholicism. The scene-like much of the movie-means to be shocking but succeeds only in being a little naughty. Mahler is overripe, hyperbolic, hysterical, without any of the wit of last year's Tommy...