Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stick his nose out too far-at times it is impossible to finish shaving because of the jets from Thailand prowling about. The, one lies flat on the floor of the cave, his only view a glimpse of the sky and a few flowerpots attached to the rock by wire. It is a difficult life, but still possible in this season. But when the rainy season begins, water penetrates the chalky mass and drips into the "hotel." It is a silent world, for the surrounding villages have disappeared, and the inhabitants also live hidden in the mountains. Some water buffalo...
...midst of his recent 2½-hour meeting with Russia's Andrei Gromyko, President Nixon was quietly handed a bulletin torn from the White House wire-service printer. It quoted an announcement from Tass that Russian authorities were detaining four men, including two U.S. generals, whose plane had crossed the Soviet-Turkish border and been forced down in Armenia. Compared with the Middle East, Berlin and other problems the two men were discussing, the incident seemed minor. Yet by last week, for reasons that still mystify Washington, the Kremlin had blown it up to an episode of major proportions...
Belli, wearing boots, wire-rim glasses, and flared pants, criticized the politicians who use law and order as a campaign issue. "Law and order isn't what I believe in at all. I believe in due process of law," he said...
...might have used as a model, Lenin urged revolutionaries "to arm themselves with anything they can lay hands on (a rifle, a gun, a bomb, a knife, a stick, a kerosene-drenched rag to set fire with, a rope or a rope ladder, a spade to build barricades, barbed wire, nails against cavalry, etc.). To start training for war immediately, by means of practical operations: killing a spy, blowing up a police station, robbing a bank to provide funds for the uprising, etc." Concluded Lenin: "Let every detachment train for action-be it only by beating up a policeman...
...Belfast and Londonderry, barbed wire, sandbag bunkers and helmeted troops have been fixtures since Northern Ireland's ancient religious antagonisms flared into violence last summer. In Calcutta and its industrial satellites police have been loath to venture off major arteries since Maoist Naxalites stabbed three of their colleagues to death in dark alleys as part of a deliberate campaign of terror. Heavy guard details have trailed diplomats in Montevideo since July, when Uruguay's Tupamaro guerrillas shed their Robin Hood image and wantonly murdered a political hostage. Canada was still tense following the brutal murder by fanatic Quebec separatists...