Word: seizinger
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ONE OF THE BEST Chinese wisecrackers is a compact tidbit of Zen that involves two tigers who pursue their helpless victim. Leaving them angrily howling below, he climbs a rope, only to find two mice gnawing through it from above. Represented by chattering dentures extended on long poles, they are...
Motherhood was almost a dirty word here-but it had its defenders. At the scientists' Environment Forum, Stanford Biologist Paul Ehrlich blamed half the world's environmental problems on increases in population. A woman biologist from Nigeria, aided by four burly colleagues, startled the audience by seizing Ehrlich...
Iraq was in trouble. About two-thirds of Baghdad's budget comes from oil. By seizing the assets of the Iraq Petroleum Co. (IPC), worth an estimated $500 million, Bakr & Co. endangered the bulk of their future revenues. Now the government must produce and market oil in the face...
What have the North Vietnamese accomplished in the current offensive? They have failed so far to capture Hue -although it is still not certain that seizing the city was one of Giap's basic strategic goals-but they have otherwise scored some substantial gains. They have badly hurt the...
Crackdown. Last week, the Croatian capital of Zagreb was bedecked with flower-adorned busts and portraits of Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito, honoring him on his 80th birthday. But beneath the show of loyalty was a simmering political crisis. Croats are still paying heavily for an outburst of nationalist feeling...