Word: types
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cruising off Japan last summer, Japanese photographer Mitsuo Shibata, flying in a rented plane, spotted Moscow's newest carrier and took this revealing set of aerial pictures near Miyako Island in the Ryukyus. With the Minsk he found the Petropavlovsk, a Soviet cruiser that carries a new type of missile apparently designed to shoot down cruise missiles...
...that the Patriotic Front is refusing to implement this reasonable document because the interim arrangements are not to its satisfaction. They want to lift sanctions and pass legislation for a government that will play their tune. This is what I call the law of Moses. Carrington is the type of man who believes he can make no mistakes; he can only deal with the Muzorewas who love that treatment. If we get into the second phase with that sort of attitude, then I'm afraid we're in for a real hard time...
...unusually candid TV interview, Dayan stated his own version of the type of policy Israel must follow if it wants progress on the Palestinian problem: a unilateral withdrawal of Israeli military government authorities from the West Bank and an evacuation of Israeli military forces from Arab population centers. Dayan proposed that the responsibility for municipal issues be transferred to local Palestinian councils even before the autonomy talks are concluded. That was clearly not a policy that appeals to Menachem Begin or the hawks in his Cabinet and so Dayan walked...
...keen, wafer-thin and pauper-poor is S.J. Perelman, whose tall, stooping figure is better known to the twilit half-world of five continents than to Publishers' Row. That he possesses the power to become invisible to finance companies; that his laboratory is tooled up to manufacture Frankenstein-type monsters on an incredible scale; and that he owns one of the rare mouths in which butter has never melted are legends treasured by every schoolboy...
...that included Frank Sullivan, Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker and H. Allen Smith. Yet as Humorist Russell Baker observes, Perelman's work was not typically American: "His writing had a certain English fineness in it. There is a love of language and an extensive vocabulary. He is hard to type. He is sui gen eris. I plagiarize a lot but I could not steal anything from him. The best you could do is a third-rate imitation and anyone could spot...