Word: stormfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that time, the storm had already broken. I.O.C. President Lord Killanin, an amiable former Irish journalist, charged Canada with violating a "fundamental" Olympic premise: "No discrimination is allowed against any country or person on the grounds of race, religion or political affiliation." Lord Killanin pointed out that even in 1936, when the Hitler regime threatened to make trouble over the appearance of Jewish and black athletes in Berlin, the Nazis decided not to tamper with the Games. Canada's objections had come far too late for the I.O.C. to consider a change of venue for the Games. Declared Killanin...
...scenes are macabre. Religious images adorn vehicles and guns as Christian soldiers, some of them wearing crosses around their necks, storm Moslem strongholds. Moslem soldiers, in their turn, strip or mutilate the bodies of dead Christian soldiers, tie them to cars and drag them through the streets. In the vicious war in Lebanon, religion is a palpable presence-though allegiances are complex and contradictory; some Christians are backing the leftist Palestinians, while the Syrians, mainly Moslem, support the rightist Christian forces. Still, the air crackles with a certain primitive energy of zealots in a holy...
...good deal of archaic expertise is involved. As one Coast Guard cadet said, "You're up in the rigging in a storm, the sail's flapping in your face, it's pitch dark, and somebody yells to clear the foreroyal buntlines. You can't go look it up in your sailing manual...
...breakfast in several Houses, and students have actively supported Sherman Holcombe against the harrassment and discrimination that he has faced. Many of us will be around over the summer, and we will be watching Harvard's actions carefully. If Harvard continues to harrass union activists, it will face a storm of student protest in the fall, perhaps even larger than student support for the Harvard printers' strike two years ago. We urge all students to support and talk to the kitchen workers in their Houses...
...Bank uprisings since February to ten-had been caused deliberately. Curfews were clapped on five Arab cities-including Hebron and Nablus-and at least one refugee camp. Arab politicians, including ones who gained office in last month's anti-Israel municipal-election returns, charged the pacifying forces with storm-trooper tactics. Said Elias Freij, mayor of Bethlehem: "People are fed up with the Israeli occupation and they want an immediate...