Word: subjecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the League now has a clear-cut majority, it is no nearer to unity as a result. While the tanks were rolling in Libya, an Arab summit of sorts was assembling in Cairo under the leadership of President Nasser. Algeria's President Houari Boumedienne described the main subject of discussion as "the battle of destiny"-the campaign against Israel. The secret talks were aimed at finding ways of better coordinating operations of the units from eight Arab armies that are arrayed (or rather disarrayed) along Israel's frontiers...
...been in the Holy Land since the previous Friday, and, as usual, the trip was part pleasure, part business and part quest. For four years, Pike had been working on a new book on the historical Jesus, and he had recently agreed to make a movie on the subject with TV Star David Frost. Pike had wanted to forage in Jerusalem bookstalls, search for new meanings in the Dead Sea Scrolls, and walk, said his wife, "where Jesus walked...
...report provides a unique global view of a depressing, but neglected and far-reaching subject. We are all in the same boat, it says in effect, and the boat is foundering. It also stitches together various urban experiments from nations of differing political persuasions to form a patchwork solution. Most important, U Thant's report offers, along with extremely pessimistic statistics about the present, an infectious optimism about the future-if nations can learn to cooperate...
Most authors approach the subject of France inductively, offering, like a Parisian épicerie, small, spicy dabs of this and that so that the whole, though piquant, is rarely filling. In one sense, Sanche de Gramont writes in the same vein. Tidbits of throwaway intelligence pop to the surface of his book like croutons in a steaming onion soup. The word bourgeois first appeared (as burgensis) in a 1007 charter establishing the free city of Loches. As a result of Versailles banquets, Louis XIV's stomach was found at his death to be twice normal size. The French Foreign...
Those who want to divine why French public administration is a marvel of codified precision and bureaucratic bungling will find 61 pages on the subject. There they will learn about the schools that produce the French Establishment, quirks of the Code Civil, the ratio of policemen per capita (one for every 347 people) and the 1949 decree that governs a concierge's weekly cleaning of a courtyard, "devoting one minute and a half per square meter for the first forty meters and thirty seconds per square meter for the remaining surface...