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...eyes of Arab extremists, Abdullah was a British stooge, and insufficiently eager to resist the birth of Israel. They accused him of not fighting hard enough in the 1948 war, in which Israel held off and beat back its Arab neighbors and macje itself at home in a hostile land. When Abdullah accepted the 1949 armistice with Israel, he inherited the territory of the old Arab part of Palestine west of the Jordan River. It was a rugged land full of holy places-Bethlehem, Calvary and Gethsemane-but bedeviled by hatreds. Its inhabitants call themselves Palestinians, not Jordanians. They numbered...
...Acceptance. Perhaps most important of all, President Eisenhower asked for the right to veto specific items in appropriations bills instead of having to sign or veto the bills in their entirety. The item veto would be a mortal blow to the congressional pork barrelers-and they are certain to resist it with all their might...
Like the gyrocompass, the gyroscopic ship stabilizer and the Mark 14 antiaircraft gun sight (developed by Dr. Draper and his associates at M.I.T. in 1941), Inertial Guidance is based on the familiar principle that keeps a child's gyroscopic top from falling: a rapidly spinning wheel will resist forces working to twist it from the plane in which it is revolving. A gyroscope sufficiently free of outside disturbances-e.g., friction-will maintain an unvarying spin axis in relation to the "fixed" stars-or any other points of reference-no matter on what path it is carried...
...asks, and a gentile at that. "Give him better a dollar he should go someplace else," she urges. But Frank stays and, miraculously, business improves. Frank Alpine is slowly revealed as a man whose aspirations are several light-years ahead of his performance. He works hard, but cannot resist stealing from the till. Then Morris discovers that Frank is one of the two robbers who held him up. Worst of all, his daughter Helen has fallen in love with the new clerk. Morris fires him, but Frank comes back, dogged, penitent. In the end, by way of ultimate expiation, Frank...
Animal tests support both explanations. Mice develop skin cancer (which resembles lung cancer because of the similarity of the tissues) after a single painting of methylcholanthrene outside the mouth, but they resist repeated paintings inside. However, if their saliva glands are removed and the mouth becomes ulcerated, they become susceptible to cancer. These results are consistent with observed cases of human mouth cancer. Such cases are rare among both smokers and betel-nut chewers with good teeth. But they are relatively common in individuals with jagged teeth or ill-fitting dentures that may have worn through the "physiological barrier...