Word: priming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Prime Time, Kendrick...
Wits rated it with the Suez invasion as one of Britain's more disastrous Middle Eastern ventures. Prime Minister Harold Wilson hastened to disclaim responsibility for the entire affair. The Times of London spoke somberly "of hospitality blasted, of reputations uprooted and of good intentions snatched up and hurled hundreds of yards into limbo." Added the Times: "A deafening silence has descended over the Middle East. Only the occasional soft sounds of a tank battle serve to fill the echoing void that has been left by the return home of Mr. George Brown...
...Falling into the same old-Socialist habit of exaggerated informality, he greeted Prime Minister Golda Meir with a hearty "Hullo, sister," embraced her as her astonished staff members gaped, and, after an 80-minute talk, parted with '"Bye, lovey." During a dinner party, he reportedly told Mrs. Meir that she need not speak so possessively about Palestine because "you are merely a Jewess from Russia who came to Israel via America...
California is a blessed state?young, aggressive, progressive. And yet it is rapidly losing many of its best natural qualities through heedless exploitation of its resources. Among its problems: OPEN SPACE. Every year, Greater Los Angeles' growth consumes 70 sq. mi. of open land. Not only is prime farm land taken out of production, but it is also developed
...Dayan made a well-publicized visit to the Suez Canal front. The next day an Israeli armored force thundered off into Jordan in search of guerrillas who had attacked a vital chemical plant on the Dead Sea. Next day, while Israeli planes attacked ammunition dumps near Cairo, Dayan and Prime Minister Golda Meir were visiting the Jordan River valley (after the visit, Dayan fractured his ankle in a leap from a helicopter...