Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...City itself. But most of the Jordanian troops defending it had slipped away, leaving only sniper resistance as one Israeli unit entered through St. Stephen's Gate and a second drove through the Damascus Gate. By 10 a.m., the conquerors stood before the great boulders of the Wailing Wall, the only remnant of the Second Temple, that for 1,897 years has been the symbol of Jewish national hope ?and despair. For all the sensational ?and far more important military victories won in Sinai, nothing so elated the Israelis as the capture of the Biblical city of Jerusalem...
Despite his frenetic witch hunting, Mao has won undisputed control of only four of Red China's 21 provinces, and only two (Peking and Shanghai) of its major cities. Now, since his supporters have begun fighting among themselves, he is unlikely to make much more progress. Peking wall posters last week told of a violent battle between rival Maoist groups in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province, which borders on North Viet Nam. According to the big character signs, 266 Maoists were killed and 1,000 wounded. Stability in Yunnan is vital to Mao because through it pass...
...ceremony in memory of Her Majesty my mother," the Duke of Windsor, 72, had explained politely to reporters. Yes and no. As 300 Londoners looked on along the Mall outside Marlborough House, Queen Elizabeth pulled a golden tassel drawing back the curtains over a small plaque on the garden wall: "Queen Mary, 1867-1953." Then she stood on the sidewalk for a few moments chatting with the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and the Earl of Harewood...
Both these basic goals -- independence and a multi-dimensional competency --contribute, in turn, to a certain freedom of spirit and intellect which is philosophically necessary for anyone who wants to wear away the wall of life, as Camus said, or to give his body for the public service, as Theodore Roosevelt said...
...little man does not count for much in the stock market any more. The "odd-lotters," as Wall Street refers to customers who deal in 99 shares or less in a transaction, represent only about 6% of an average day's trading on the New York Stock Exchange...