Word: yank
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both money and weapons are obvious levers for nudging Israel closer to the U.S. diplomatic position. But the Administration is unlikely to yank on either one too hard. For one thing, the U.S. position in the world would be severely damaged if Israel were to suffer a military disaster. For another, any Middle East peace settlement demands the voluntary cooperation of its signatories; a too unwilling Israel would probably not honor the agreement for long...
...malefactors. It was a fun little game, and Daddy played it just right, cool and cunning and with just the faintest suggestion that he was enjoying the hell out of the whole show. Then he'd weigh anchor and take everybody over to South Africa to watch the natives yank a few more million out of his diamond mines. A real character, that Daddy Warbucks. Too bad he wasn't real...
...measure of the extent to which Dworkin has succeeded in stimulating his colleagues-whether positively or negatively-is the experience of the Georgia Law Review. The editors solicited articles for a special issue on jurisprudence-and found that virtually every contribution addressed the challenging thoughts of the Yank at Oxford...
...Successful getaway on April 23, 1967, from Missouri state pen. Ray claims he clambered up a water pipe and used a stolen steel hook to yank himself over the prison wall, but prison officials believe he hid in a large bread crate, and escaped in a delivery truck that carried...
...Cornelius Ryan's bestselling history, does permit Britain's acting fraternity to redeem its generals' follies. Whatever is lively and memorable in the film, which is not much, is provided by the English members of the most expensive all-star cast in recent memory. Their Yank allies, doubtless because they had second-banana roles in the original production 33 years ago, have dim, brief lives on the screen...