Word: thundered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Egypt on the day of the Israeli parade, 7,300,000 voters went to the polls and, by an affirmative vote of 99.98%, which is even purer than Ivory Soap, endorsed President Gamal Abdel Nasser's reform program in a ritual that he described as "louder than the thunder of 300 tanks in Arab Jerusalem." Though the vote was ostensibly on a series of domestic reforms, Nasser had also asked the people to make it a ringing endorsement of his policy of renewed holy war against Israel-even though he knows that Egypt is not yet ready for such...
...proved difficult for each side. Bombing of the North, particularly around the heavy-population centers, has been a constant impediment to any peace talks -not to say one of the most emotional issues of the war. Between May 1965 and February 1967, the U.S. suspended the bombing-"Operation Rolling Thunder" - five times, the halts ranging in duration from two to 37 days. None of them cracked the diplomatic...
Presidential choices listed on the ballot range form George C. Wallace to Fred Halstead, the Socialist Worker candidate." "There has been a lot of thunder on both the left and the right," Harris said, "but this will be the first time that students have been able to speak with a single voice...
...years, Oklahoma's Carl Albert, Democratic leader in the U.S. House of Representatives, has been a power second only to the Speaker. And until death silenced his oratorical thunder in 1963, the Sooner State's Bob Kerr had no peer among the exalted unofficial overlords of the Senate. When Okla homa sent Fred Roy Harris to sit in Kerr's Senate seat, it was like a zephyr taking over from a monsoon. Or so it was assumed...
Sophomore Roy Shaw stole some of Jim Baker's thunder last night, nosing out the senior at the finish of the mile run in Harvard's 78-31 demolition of the Northeastern track team...