Word: stationed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days later, Al-Fatah avenged what its radio station called "a brutal massacre." Striking across the Syrian border in a maneuver that could not have been conducted without approval from the far-left regime in Damascus, commandos hit the Lebanese border towns of Masnaa, Arida and Biqeiha. Overpowering police and customs posts, the guerrillas took 24 captives. They were later set free, but only after Al-Fatah bragged that their capture was "full evidence of the revolution's ability to take any measures it considers appropriate for self-defense." Al-Fatah, in other words, would move when and where...
...really knows its source. It has been variously traced to a thesis by an Ohio Wesleyan University student, a satirical but deadpan story in the Oct. 14 issue of the University of Michigan Daily, and a Detroit disk jockey who spread much the same nonsense over radio station WKNR. Since the rumor spread, Beatle fans have diligently parsed the albums of their heroes for clues corroborating what they already wanted to believe; of course, they found them, usually in forced interpretations of Beatle lyrics. That is another characteristic of rumor. It does not require-indeed, it commonly rejects-the discipline...
...students from Harvard, Radcliffe, Simmons, and B.U., rode the M.B.T.A. from Harvard to Columbia station and back, distributing free candy. flowers, and balloons, while singing "Charlie on the M.T.A." They were greeted mostly with smiles and enthusiasm...
...group almost smothered an M.B.T.A. official with flowers and candy as members surged up the stairs at the Harvard Square station. The man smiled back saying the happening was "very enjoyable." "I'd like to have it every night," he said While chewing on his tootsie roll. He added, "Now I'll get fatter...
When The Vixen made its debate in Washington this summer, it attracted little attention outside the regular circle of skin-flick fans who hang out in the city's 14th Street theater district. Vixen opened in a movie house across the street from the Greyhound bus station, and on nights in early July there was a steady line of soldiers stretching across the street from the station into the theater...