Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...detained, eating at the officers' mess and sharing a room with a Jordanian air force officer in genial camaraderie. He seemed cheerfully prepared to cooperate, and the Jordanians happily scheduled a big conference where Madani was to be put on show as a Nasser spy in the sky. But early that afternoon he excused himself from the group of officers chatting at the club, explaining that he had forgotten to get something in his room. Moments later, a shot rang out, and rushing up, the Jordanians were horrified to find Madani dead on the floor of his room...
Deficit spending, he warned, is "the way of the political coward" and a sure road to national weakness. In a barbed aside, Ike urged his receptive hearers (2,900 certified public accountants) not to be decoyed by "glittering political promises of pie in the sky...
...intelligence at last buys the child, like a sort of junior Faust. Barry's curtain speech is memorable and moving: "I was wondering about the Forgetting Chamber. If all the pictures went out, if I forgot everything, where would they go? Just out into the air? Into the sky? Back home, around my bed, where my dreams stay...
During the past five years United States influence in the United Nations has hestically declined. Before 1955, the United States could readily maneuver a two-thirds majority of the General Assembly into action. Since then, the increasing strength of the Soviet Union, the rise of neutralist nations, and the sky support of Latin America have forced the U.S. to realize that American foreign policy and the desires of the world organization are not, in all cases, same...
...Blue Sky Estimates. The forecasts were out of line chiefly because some sales estimates were more blue sky than blue chip. The original overoptimism is long gone, replaced by a sober realization that the U.S. economy, while operating at close to a peak level, is not moving forward in line with expectations...