Word: ah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good ruler, a devoted foreign adviser, and enough oil royalties to work with. The five-island archipelago produces only one-thirtieth of Saudi Arabia's crude, has one-fortieth of Iraq's proven reserves, earns but a fiftieth of Kuwait's royalties. Yet Bahrein (rhyme with ah, rain) is the showplace of the oil kingdoms. Manama, the capital, looks more like a clean town in the West Indies or Bermuda than an Arab town. It has dial phones, running water, sewers, electricity. Mobile DDT sprayers roam over the islands. Malaria has been wiped out, trachoma is disappearing...
Ohlo: 57 FF, 242SS, 299 AQ, 371 CA, LG 450, NC 582, US 596, YY 3464; Oklahoma: 14528, 2-28346; Pennsylvania: 581B3, HEL8, GC97, 138PP, 0249K, 2509P, E7689; Rhode Island: S1795, 3499, G5415, N8689; South Carolina: D130783; Texas: LM 470, AH 2234, FD 9180; Vermont: EE463; Wyoming: 858327; Virginia: 809940; Washington: S5577U
...ancestors, but after his death an enlightened colonial government put the beasts on a diet of fish. Later, the government cleaned them out of the lake altogether-or thought it did. But last week, an alert game warden discovered one little four-foot croc still in residence. Ah, said the natives, old Mwanga himself. A hunt began, and the little croc vanished...
...just an ex-pug." Grunewald, a stumplike man with a florid face and a squashed nose, seemed willing enough to talk. His lawyer, however, had different ideas. Mincing around in front of Grunewald was dapper William Power Maloney, who chirruped: "He's not answering any questions." "Say ah," teased a reporter, but Henry wouldn't. Then lawyer and client disappeared into the subcommittee's hearing room...
...Ah,' he sighed, 'I've just dropped several million on Royal Dutch...