Word: sub
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sub was at sea when Sadat learned what was going on and ordered its captain to return to his base at Alexandria...
Sadat declined to explain how another Arab leader could issue orders to an Egyptian sub. Such an attack probably would have failed anyway, since both British and Israeli air and naval units were screening the liner against possible attack...
Alexis de Tocqueville foresaw that democracy would have the effect of flattening the peaks of excellence while elevating the sub-par or the average. The danger is that in glorifying the least common denominator, democracy mandates mediocrity. The hope is that such a system will encourage a universal standard of excellence in every pursuit. Tocqueville took it for granted that the leveling process in a democracy would produce a mean?but not a happy mean...
When the late-night munchies strike, Harvard students usually flock to the fast-food places around the Square. Besides Elsie's, Tommy's and others of that genre, a variety of pizza and sub shops cash in on the nocturnal hunger pangs...
...sweep from west to east around the top and bottom of the world. Indeed it is the widening of this cap of cold air that is the immediate cause of Africa's drought. By blocking moisture-bearing equatorial winds and preventing them from bringing rainfall to the parched sub-Sahara region, as well as other drought-ridden areas stretching all the way from Central America to the Middle East and India, the polar winds have in effect caused the Sahara and other deserts to reach farther to the south. Paradoxically, the same vortex has created quite different weather quirks...