Word: amar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...filled with soft music. Then came the announcement: Ben Bella had personally commuted the death sentences of Ait Ahmed and Si Moussa to life imprisonment. Both men will probably be sent deep into the Sahara where they can keep company with former Premier Ferhat Abbas, former Justice Minister Amar Bentoumi, and several former deputies, including Abderrahmane Fares, ex-President of the provisional executive government. In Algeria, the revolution does not devour its children; it merely buries them in the desert...
...boys emptied the wide-mouthed urn over the water, a single cannon boomed a farewell salute, the military band fell silent, and the vast crowd roared, "Nehru amar hail [Nehru is immortal]." The remainder of the ashes were scattered all over India, from the beautiful green Vale of Kashmir, which Nehru loved, to the cotton fields around Ahmadnagar Fort, where he had been imprisoned by the British. It was now clear that Nehru had known for months that he lived close to death. On a scratch pad on his desk, Nehru had neatly written the elegiac lines of Robert Frost...
...Republic of Tunisia, who, among other reforms, abolished polygamy; from Moufida Bourguiba, 72, his wife since 1926, mother of Habib Bourguiba Jr., Tunisia's ambassador to the U.S., Canada; in a French-style civil court last spring. Also revealed: Bourguiba's marriage last June to Ouassila Ben Amar, 45, a plump and smart Tunisian divorcee who has long wished to be first lady...
...Hindemith's performance on the vielle, it was as masterly as might be expected from a man who can play every instrument in the orchestra and who was once considered one of the world's leading viola virtuosos (as a soloist and a member of the Amar-Hindemith Quartet...
...Russian girl to dance with him. Soviet authorities even called a meeting to persuade African students to deny the story. When Ayih not only refused to cooperate but joined in fresh complaints to the university rector and to the Ministry of Culture, he was expelled from the Soviet Union. Amar and Okonkwo decided to leave...