Word: shortness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many earnest evangelists of individual repentance and moral purity, the prophetic conception of the righteous remnant of a nation is sufficiently strong among religious and secular people alike to enable us to participate in the most significant reversal of national policy on moral grounds ever compassed in so relatively short a time, given the unprecedented magnitude of our goal. Never before has such a large proportion of the population of any nation become so actively involved in reversing the policy of its head of state as is now the case...
...Trans World Airlines' flight 841 lined up to board their jet in Athens last week, an alert supervisor named Frixos Servetopoulos noticed that two men and a woman were carrying identical brown leather satchels. Feigning routine interest, Servetopoulos inspected one bag, then scurried to call the police. In short order, the three passengers were arrested. Inside their luggage was found an arsenal of pistols, hand grenades and bombs. The three were also carrying mimeographed statements announcing that the airliner was being skyjacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (P.F.L.P...
...doing it for our children. They must have the chance." A blonde, her eyes red from weeping, worried about her mother at home. "If I were the only one, I wouldn't stay here," she said. "But there are so many of us." Though Sweden is short of skilled workers and professionals, some of the refugees were understandably worried about their near penury. Nobody had more than five or six days' change of clothing or $12 in pocket money-the maximum that Czechoslovaks can take out of their country. Said one woman: "It's a step...
...ferret out the North Vietnamese before they could mount an attack. In a series of daily skirmishes, Colonel Canh's troopers swept the wooded ridge lines of the Central Highlands, preventing the enemy from concerted attack. The enemy's closest penetration in force fell a half-mile short of the perimeter wire...