Word: alls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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For the rest of his days, Norwegians heaped contempt on the old recluse they had once revered as "the giant of the North." Thousands of copies of his famed novels were mailed back to him or dumped on the doorstep of his south coast farmstead. Before he died in 1952...
But only three. Norwegians were quick to point out that "all" flags are flown on the anniversaries of such great Norwegian authors as Ibsen and Bjornson. Said the newspaper Dagbladet: "Hamsun will go down in history as one of the greatest authors. But . . . any attempt to explain away his conduct...
In a white station wagon, trailed by a dozen Jeeps loaded with gun-slung Arabs and a cavalcade of cars packed with politicians and journalists, Jordan's 23-year-old King Hussein sped westward one day last week from his hot, dusty capital of Amman. On the approach to...
"We must take one step backward in order to take 100 steps forward," declared tough, chunky Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat, 51, and with that convenient philosophy in mind last October, he took over Thailand's government, abrogated the constitution, dissolved the Parliament, abolished political parties, and set up martial...
Nuts & Taboos. Sustaining himself on a diet of nuts and oranges (he had quit drinking) and working until all hours of the night, Sarit became not only Premier but the nation's chief fireman, policeman and garbage collector. He commanded housewives to hang their laundry out of sight, abolished...