Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ration of eight ounces per adult.) Gan's schoolteachers quit their jobs to sign on as high-paid laborers on the base, joining the 1,200 workmen imported from Pakistan. A Maldivian official sent from the capital island of Male to persuade the people of Gan to go back to their proper jobs was attacked by a mob and had to appeal to the British for protection...
Nonsense was precisely the word for much that has been going on in the inner circles of the Cuban government. But the reason for much of it was Castro himself. Never one to stay hitched, he failed to back his Cabinet while making pie-in-the-sky promises to all supplicants...
...grocery bag. Apart from the day she pendulated across the Avenida Atlântica glued into her briefest bikini (thus causing a three-car crash), almost nothing stayed on. That night, as she danced in the Copacabana Palace Golden Room, an enterprising Brazilian yanked on the zipper at the back of her dress and. presto, 0 Busto was bare to the waist...
...that he is 65, suggested the form letter from the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, would he care to exercise his right to a retirement allowance of $7 a week? Wrote back Prime Minister Harold Macmillan...
...Capitol Hill there were signs of an early spring thaw. Mellowed by his long bout with cancer (TIME, Feb. 16), Oregon's Democratic Senator Richard Neuberger went back to work, was greeted on the Senate floor by a crowd of well-wishers, headed by none other than his frosty old foe and senior colleague, Wayne Morse. Said Morse: "It is good to have him back with us." Replied Neuberger gaily: "So far as I am concerned, we will work together." Putting words into action, the two showed up for an Oregon centennial party next day, jointly labored through...