Word: objecting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...force is the object of the sort of adulation that was last seen 30 years ago this summer, when Winston Churchill's R.A.F. "few" fought off the Nazis in the Battle of Britain. In the Israelis' case, the few are chosen with painstaking care. Air Force Commander Mordechai Hod, 44, once said that if he picked 300 youths at random from a Tel Aviv street, no more than one would qualify for pilot training. Those who make it are rarely the hard-drinking, fast-living flyboys of fiction. TIME Correspondent John Shaw, visiting one base, described them as members...
...Keep Order Without Killing" [May 25]: Some years ago as a youth, I was a member of raiding parties. The object of our raids was not banks, schools or such, but outlying watermelon patches. The "Pigs," in those days, were grizzled farmers armed with their trusty 12-gaugers loaded with rock salt. Never heard of anyone getting killed, but it was several days before some of us could sit down comfortably. Anyway, such tactics effectively protected valuable property and maintained law and order...
...Gandhi's state visit pointed up the fact that Mauritius-situated some 2,400 miles south of the Indian subcontinent and 1,400 miles off the coast of East Africa-has become an object of interest to the great powers. The closing of the Suez Canal in 1967 forced merchant shipping back onto the round-Africa routes to Asia, turning Mauritius into a regular port of call...
...baseball, yet none has created more of a furor than Bouton's "muck-stirrer," as one sportswriter calls it. The reason seems to be that players do not mind being knocked for their playing; it's talking about their playing around off the field that they object...
MORE PROJECT '70 designers worked on one park, playground, or object than on a city-wide plan. But if all their designs are executed, Boston will have youth centers, parks, and playgrounds galore, all full of unique playthings, bright murals, awnings and light shows. And traditional art works like paintings and sculpture swill be done at the giant city-scale to propagate public pleasure-some billboards will even hold cheery graphics instead of motel...