Word: two-year-old
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Early in the fall Sviatoslav I. Karavansky, a Ukranian dissident living in internal exile in the Soviet Union, accepted a two-year-old invitation from the department of Slavic Languages and Literatures to lecture here...
...heavier defense burden in order to free some U.S. military resources for duty in the now strategically critical Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean. U.S. officials had been pressing the Europeans on this for several months, and last week the allies agreed on a two-stage program to accelerate NATO's already ambitious two-year-old Long Term Defense Program. As a first stage, the alliance plans to acquire more conventional battlefield weapons within the next year, increase ammunition stockpiles and improve defenses against Soviet chemical warfare. Then by the mid-1980s, the allies intend to complete the program...
Last season's top two-year-old, Rockhill Native, entered the 1980 season as the whiter book favorite, but when it came time for winter racing, he could not match his illustrious predecessors. Rockhill Native campaigned in Florida, at times giving a good imitation of a colt slogging through the swamps, not tuning up for the Triple Crown. Horseplayers promptly started looking for other contenders...
...characteristic of World's buccaneering chairman, Edward Daly, 57. A combative Irishman who likes to arm-wrestle visitors, Daly has a reputation for making apparently unsound economic moves pay off. In 1950, at 27, and after a brief career as a semiprofessional boxer, Daly bought the two-year-old ailing World with $50,000 worth of poker winnings. The carrier was no prize. Its debts totaled $250,000, and its assets were only seven planes: two leased war-surplus transports and five unairworthy flying boats that later were sold for scrap...
...Lebanese border. Seizing six hostages in the kibbutz nursery, they demanded the release of several Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails. Following an abortive predawn rescue attempt, Israeli troops stormed the concrete dormitory. They killed all five terrorists and saved all but one of the hostages: a two-year-old boy who had apparently been killed in the original raid. One Israeli soldier and the kibbutz secretary also died in the attack...