Word: warriors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...miles across the low hills to the south, Mayor (Mukhtar) Said el Khatib believes that, "some of them know more than we do about the property back home." It is a knowledge that is cultivated. "When our sons first speak," says Masa'ad Haidary, 43, a holdout Arab warrior until 1948, "Palestine is in their mouths, and each morning before they eat we speak to them of Palestine...
...Israel's main supporter. So, in a long historical ramble on Israel's origins that shocked the French by its antiSemitism, De Gaulle described the lews as "an elite people, sure of themselves and dominating." The state of Israel after 1956, he said, was a "warrior, and determined to enlarge itself...
...tests were urged on the FTC by Washington Democrat Warren G. Magnuson, the Senate's chief anti-smoking warrior. The commission, which had called a halt to the tobacco industry's health-prompted "tar derby" back in 1960 on grounds that no standard testing methods existed, reversed itself last year at Magnuson's behest. With the new rankings, which will be revised periodically, Magnuson hopes that now "the American smoker will choose his poison" and force the industry into another derby...
...temple of the Emerald Buddha, the King had ordered the whole palace and temple grounds illuminated. Lights shone on the golden spires and the gilded heads of the king cobras, on the fierce 25-ft.-high demons who guard the temple, on the white monkey king warrior and the life-size golden statue of Manohra, half human and half bird. Entranced by her walk, Jackie called the temple "the most beautiful thing I have ever seen." Then she flew off for a brief stopover in Rome before returning...
...Guard the subject of frequent investigation and debate. The latest wave of controversy was touched off by the conduct of Guardsmen in last summer's ghetto nightmares in Newark and Detroit, where their inexperience, ineptitude and lack of equipment served to reinforce the popular image of the "weekend warrior." That image is one of telephone repairmen, drugstore clerks and insurance executives spending Tuesday nights in rumpled khakis clumsily trying to keep in step with the "hup, two, three, four" of a part-time sergeant, an image of portly privates eating cold beans around a campfire for two weeks each...