Word: shouldering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...however, 17 Arab League nations voted to designate the P.L.O. at Geneva as the representative of the Palestinian people. Last month, under prodding from Sadat and Saudi Arabia's King Faisal, Hussein gave in. "If it is the unanimous will of the Arab countries that the P.L.O. should alone shoulder the responsibility of recovering the West Bank and Jerusalem," Hussein said, "I will bow to their will and consider that I have been relieved of my responsibilities...
...other end of the faculty spectrum is John G.S. Flym, whose shoulder-length black hair, denim overalls and work shoes corroborate his students' description of him as the "radical" of the faculty. Flym came to teach at Northeastern by way of Harvard Law School (a 1964 graduate) and the Law Commune, a Boston-based group of leftist lawyers through which Flym served as counsel for Harvard students brought to trial for their participation in the 1969 takeover of University Hall. Flym's class on Constitutional Issues studies the decisions of the three-year old Burger Court, and the analysis...
Moving back into the street, the Palestinians stumbled onto a municipal worker named Jacob Kadosh, 59. "Who are you?" they asked. "A Jew," said Kadosh. "Which way to the school?" demanded the Hebrew-speaking Arab. The puzzled Kadosh pointed, and then was shot in the shoulder. The three men advanced to the school, 100 yds. away, and were inside before the guards realized that they were there. Waving guns and hand grenades, the Palestinians jolted the sleeping students awake with kicks on the feet. "Lakum, lakum [Get up, get up]!" they yelled. Fifteen students, a few teachers and the rabbi...
...President's days in office seemed numbered. "Over the weekend, there are going to be some decisions made," said a top Republican congressional leader. "People are going to be thinking about things. I don't know what the decisions will be. I have the monkey on my shoulder, no doubt about...
...soon becomes clear that Mitchell is not about to shoulder the blame and is, in fact, as adept at shifting it as are his quondam colleagues...