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Word: idealizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Idaho's Republican Senator William Borah, an avowed isolationist: "He is almost an ideal Senator, with no desire to put forward constructive ideas, but always anxious so to frame his utterances that he will afterwards be able to prove that he was right and everyone else was wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Sir Ronald's Well-Sharpened Portraits | 1/12/1970 | See Source »

...gunboats are ideal for Israel's small navy. Egypt already has 20 Soviet-built gunboats of the Osa and Komar classes; one of the Osas stunned Israel in October 1967 by sinking the destroyer Elath with a Styx missile. After the Six-Day War, Israel ordered a dozen vessels, each with a French hull, German engines and Italian electronics, including the 20-mile surface-to-surface Gabriel missile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Israel's Fugitive Flotilla | 1/12/1970 | See Source »

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