Word: al
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next in line to head the government was Sheik Ali Musaid al-Babak-ri, a desert tribesman who holds the unlikely position of Minister of Civil Aviation. Sheik al-Babakri immediately asked the federation's 8,000-man army to take charge of the government "in response to the desire of the people...
...army refused, and Al-Babakri resigned in a rage...
...radical reorientation of the entire seminary course," including some substitution of small seminars and discussion groups for lectures, more field work in social agencies, hospitals, and jails and industry, perhaps also an addition al fourth year for the introduction of new courses on contemporary life...
...years, only 3,188 U.S. fighting men have qualified to wear the star-spangled blue silk neckband and bronze star of the nation's highest award for valor. And with each war the Med al of Honor becomes harder...
Smoking Dyspeptic. One habitual smoker who was dissatisfied with al most everything he heard before the subcommittee was Kentucky's Thruston Morton, a Senator with his tobacco-farming constituents' interests at heart. Throughout, he sat with a dyspeptic scowl for the medical experts and a curiously unsympathetic attitude toward the Strickman filter, which, if proved effective, could prove a Golconda for his planters. "O.K.," snapped Morton, "we'll all stop smoking, and you'll upset the economy...