Word: storming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were burned. Pe titions for his dismissal poured into Prague. Seeing that he was through, many of Novotny's old friends, including the army general staff, joined the chorus against him. Novotny closed himself off in Hradcany Castle on a hill overlooking Prague, hoping that the storm would blow over. When a news paper suggested that illness might give him an honorable excuse to resign - he suffers from gallstones - he telephoned the editors to report that his health was much improved. Politically, he was already in extremis. When the Communist Party Presidium ordered him to resign, he went along...
...organizations, most of them less interested in playing Arab politics (as was the P.L.A.) than in fielding effective guerrillas. The largest, and to all appearances the most dynamic, of them all is Asita (thunderstorm), the paramilitary arm of a broader political group named El Fatah, whose commandos call themselves storm troopers...
Asifa's storm troopers have little in common with the illiterate and ill-equipped irregulars who used to sneak into Israel. Roughly half of them are college graduates or students, and all are rotated regularly in and out their civilian jobs, a practice that makes guerrilla fight ing more attractive and assures Asifa penetration into all levels of civilian life. They undergo formal guerrilla train mg at bases such as the Karamah refugee camp, which was the mam target of last week's Israeli assault. To main tain a semblance of secrecy, Asifa is organized into c. like...
...that there isn't anything to recommend it. There are unusual effects--like subtitles when nobody's speaking and (you figure the director wanted to be fair) no subtitles when the characters are talking up a storm...
...only get a small part of flood water in this area normally," Stokes said, "and the water from the present storm has been successfully reduced by our equipment...