Word: tippings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...open role of the Palestinians quickly caught the attention of neighboring Syria and Israel. Damascus is now known to be aiding the leftist Moslem forces there through its Saiqa fedayeen. Should Syrian assistance-or, less likely, outright intervention-threaten to tip the balance toward a Lebanon dominated by radical Arabs, the Israelis might respond with force because, said Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, such a situation would be "a real threat to Israel's security...
...presenting a unified slate and increasing their constituency, the candidates hope to tip the political balance in their favor and capture five of the nine seats on the council...
America's elite had gathered, but not for a political function--Tip O'Neill stood, not on Pennsylvania Avenue, but on Jersey Street in Boston. The crowd was dressed for opera, but there was no opera house. The reporters were jotting down notes for the sports page, not for op-ed columns or music reviews. The upper class had descended on Fenway Park for the first game of the World Series...
...accept a plan that would guarantee state loans to keep New York afloat while it constricts its payroll and services to balance its budget by 1978. Congressmen are reluctant to help, but more and more of them feel that there is no alternative. Explained House Majority Leader Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill: "We can't let the financial capital of the world go down...
...Woman's Survival Sourcebook, though its editors call it only "the tip of the iceberg" of a movement that itself still has a long, long way to go, indicates just how far from that beginning women have come...