Word: al
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...throw was two feet beyond Croasdale's previous best this year and within four inches of his best ever. But veteran Bob Backus, Olympian Al Hall, and Alex Shulten of Bowdoin broke 60 feet to come in ahead of Croasdale...
...bloody civil war, which may have cost over 100,000 dead, is one that everyone is sick of and no one knows how to stop. During the ceasefire, negotiations broke down because the republicans refused to give up the republic and the royalists refused to abandon the Imam. And al most all Yemenis, of whatever political stripe, want to be rid of Egyptian troops, who behave more like an army of occupation than an ally...
Parental pressure for grades at Pali is intense; students often retaliate at home by demanding cars, clothes, expensive vacations. "If you aren't aware of the underlying fraud," explains Senior Al Hunsaker, an A student, "then you become a grind. In a way, it's a massive put-on, faking out the community and the family without going through the suffering of a full-fledged revolt." "As long as we don't make waves," a classmate adds, "the administration is happy...
According to the official newspaper Al Ahram, the Assembly was "stunned into moments of solemn silence" by Nasser's words, but did he really mean to quit? Well, hardly. Under Nasser's constitution the President may succeed himself, and Nasser pointedly failed to rule himself out as a draft choice for renomination. His message got through. Suddenly the Assembly was flooded by a deluge of telegrams, petitions and let ters urging Nasser's renomination. Visitors descended on the chamber, hurrying to get their support down in writing in the guest book. One entry attested that "The Ministry...
Talk about greyhound racing to a horseman, and his lip curls in contempt. "Outdoor roulette. The numbers game -for gamblers and rubes," he sneers, recalling the days when Al Capone and Frank Nitti ran the action and anything went: switching dogs, doping them, filling them full of water to slow them down, sticking thorns in their feet. Some of the old flamboyance still persists in Britain, where the whole country was buzzing last week over the dognapping of Hi Joe, the favorite for next June's Greyhound Derby. But in the U.S. these days, dog racing is almost respectable...