Word: winded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flower, love, The grassy wind moves...
...secrecy is not entirely effective. Somehow, Israeli intelligence gets wind of Asifa operations with such regularity that up till now some 80% of all infiltrators have been killed or captured. The ones who do get through, however, do enough damage to keep Israeli life thoroughly on edge-such as last week's bombing of ; busload of children and even attacks on coastal Tel Aviv. It is an open secret that Asifa has marked Defense Minister Moshe Dayan for assassination and has sent a top agent into Israel to do the job. And, if the organization's leaders...
Schools & Water Wells. Spam's oth er African colonies are also moving ahead, though at a slower pace. In the Spanish Sahara, a wind-blown waste populated by 40,000 nomads and 20,000 troops and government officials, Spain is pouring $28 million into the de velopment of vast underground phos phate reserves - the world's largest -and spending another $9,000,000 a year to put up schools, dig water wells for tribesmen and persuade the suspicious Saharans that the Spanish are really on their side. In a recent referendum, 14,000 out of 16,000 persons...
During their research, British scientists discovered evidence that the detergent was the prime killer. Where wind and tides had shielded an occasional oil-spattered cove or bay, most flora and fauna survived...
France's Claude Simon would agree with all these propositions, but he is less interested in erecting models of a thesis than in exploring the possibilities of language. In Histoire, as in The Wind, The Grass and other books, he turns fragments of the imagination into poetry rather than into the monotone prose that is the mark of most New Novels. Histoire should be read as poetry, which means it should be read aloud. Speed readers, trained to sop up information and the dull acknowledgments of psychological and sociological fiction, will have to shift into low. Histoire...