Word: springboarded
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...city of Suez in the south, the line was finished only days before Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser renounced the cease-fire and launched his "war of attrition" in March 1969. Lieut. General Haim Bar-Lev devised the Suez defense system as both a shield and a springboard. "Its day-to-day mission is to prevent a serious breaching of the canal," he said last week. "But the system can easily be turned into a jump-ing-off point." So far, however, only small commando raids have been launched. Heavily outgunned (10 to 1), the Israelis are also...
...present Harvard-Radcliffe context will necessarily have considerable shoricomings. The flaws in his plan only point out the urgency for a renewed drive for merger. The discussion of coeducational housing should not stop with the vagaries and complexities of the plan's logistics, but should serve as a springboard to the larger questions raised by a merger of Harvard and Radcliffe...
Bill Scheer, SMC spokesman, said that his group considers the demonstrations a springboard for their campaign to hold a state-wide referendum...
...Cabinet meeting that lasted six hours, Foreign Minister Abba Eban and Minister without Portfolio Pinhas Sapir used the punishment issue as a springboard for an attack on Dayan's entire policy for dealing with the occupied territories. They criticized his plans for combining the economies of the occupied areas with that of Israel. They also scored his plans to settle Israelis in strategic areas, such as the Golan Heights, and his quasi-annexation of occupied territory through the gradual spread of Israeli law. Deputy Premier Yigal Alton, Dayan's chief rival for eventual premiership, joined in the attack...
...Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium rests upon a slight, bright springboard: a bunch of American tourists undergoing a special kind of American masochism called nine European countries in 18 days. What could have been a Grand Hotel on wheels swiftly degenerates into a bus of fools, overpopulated with drooling Babbitts and hatchet-faced moms. Humor centers around the foreign John with its mysterious bidet and its waxy toilet paper. A sleazy double-entendre occasionally surfaces, as when the tour guide observes that the cockney word for sausages is (smirk) bangers...