Word: alonge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...diplomatic protest. Astonished, the official asked who had reported the incident, was told Bizri had. "Well, that's a new one," said the official. The Turkish-Syrian border was sleepily quiet. Turkish forces on the frontier (three armored brigades, three infantry divisions) were in defensive positions, and travelers along the Syrian side of the line saw no evidence at all that the Syrian army was bracing itself for an attack...
...Though he already has four wives* and upwards of 80 concubines, Saud, according to a witness, was "visibly staggered." Soon Ferial's father was approached to find out if she was available for marriage. When the King flew back to Saudi Arabia a few days later, he took along pictures of Ferial to show to his mother, whom he likes to consult in such matters...
Last week. in the austere severity of a fogbound London, Her Majesty's Judicial Committee of the Privy Council listened solemnly to the case of a murder by a lion-woman in the heart of Africa. Muhandi's appeal was denied; he would be hanged for murder, along with the two women, in accordance with the sentence of the Tanganyika court...
...successor is a career diplomat with a reputation for getting along with all kinds of people on every side of a dispute. Sir Hugh is a brother of Ipswich's new Labor M.P. Dingle Foot and left-wing Laberite Michael Foot, editor of Aneurin Beva.i's Tribune. Tall, shrewd, Cambridge-trained Sir Hugh has served in posts ranging from Nigeria (where a terrorist slashed his jacket in an assassination attempt) to Palestine (where both Arabs and Jews considered him a friend). He is favorably remembered in Cyprus as a World War II civilian official who was liked...
Poison to Relax. This done, Bovet switched to the mechanism by which curare paralyzes the muscles. It took him eight years to find the essential ingredients in the impure mixtures of Indian arrow poisons: along the way he synthesized 400 compounds which produced some of curare's effects in one degree or another. His research brought out the usefulness of succinylcholine. a long-neglected curare-like compound now widely employed as a muscle relaxant in major surgery on the chest and abdomen...