Word: webbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Middle East has long been the scene of pacts and battle lines that can shift almost as suddenly and capriciously as the sands of the desert. But the web of political and military ties emerging around the Iraq-Iran conflict is complex and paradox-ridden even by Middle Eastern standards. The basic line-up?Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Jordan versus Iran, Syria and Libya?cuts across almost every political, ideological and sectarian bond in the region and once again makes the old slogan of Arab unity ring hollow...
...persuaded Western Union boys to leak him telegrams announcing federal projects. Johnson then released the news first, under his own name. As a New Deal Congressman, he was a favorite of F.D.R.'s. As Senator Johnson, leader of the majority, he ruled at the center of a web woven of short hairs. His knowledge of what people wanted, what they had to hide and what they were willing to give made him the Great Conciliator...
...lancing wit and blazing rhetoric. He wages a holy war against middle-class hypocrisy, capitalistic exploitation, the ser vile status of women and humbug in all forms. In Misalliance Shaw argues that the time (1909) has come to blow up the family. In his view it is a web of contractual coercion masquerading as love and care...
...prices was making the companies rich, that the companies were in league with the sheiks against the consumer--and it was all true." But--he stresses--there is still a real oil crisis that Americans will not face, which has irreparably weakened the country by enmeshing it in a web of interdependency with foreign regimes like that of Saudi Arabia...
...castle sat on a fang of rock, accessible only by a precarious path above a 200 foot drop. From this seemingly impregnable strong hold Hassan-i-Sabbah, the 'Old Man of the Mountains,' had ruled . . . and his successors had sat like spiders at the center of their web, for 170 years until Hulagu and his Mongols stormed over the pass...