Word: tempts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Clerance Felder as the Devil then dons angel's robe and halo and takes the "high road" to tempt the Soldier. No longer a sadist, the Devil has become an effeminate masochist...
...move: a clear-cut routing of the guerrillas; a smashing fedayeen victory and Hussein's fall; a prolonged stalemate. They outlined U.S. options to deal with each eventuality. Far more ominous, however, was another possibility: that the Iraqis and Syrians, long sympathetic to the commandos, might intervene. That could tempt Israeli troops, armor and airpower to plunge in too. Then Egypt might respond?and Soviet pilots and technicians have become an integral part of Gamal Abdel Nasser's military forces. The first aim of U.S. strategy had to be to confine the fighting to the initial parties. The U.S. also...
...nations that hold the geographic keys to Europe have at last decided that peace is the only sensible solution. The peril is that the Treaty of Moscow will cause the West to succumb to a false sense of security that could again end in disillusionment. The accord might also tempt the Eastern Europeans to move too far and too fast in seeking accommodation with the West. If that happens, Soviet leaders may decide to reassert the Brezhnev Doctrine-just as they did in Czechoslovakia two years ago. Because of the dismal failure of Soviet-style Communism to develop healthy roots...
...annihilated. Nature, however, is just. That no one succumbed to the venom suggests to me the peaceful ways of most living things other than man. No, I do not see the snakes as seeking revenge (justified though they may be) upon the bulldozer, but as serpents coming to tempt us, before it is too late, back to the Garden of Eden...
...penalties for failure to act on urgent needs, such as pollution control. That marks a striking reversal of their traditional opposition to federal "interference" with business. Eli Goldston, president of Boston's Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates, recently pleaded for "a set of federal programs containing enough carrots to tempt us and enough whips to force...