Word: bagot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Anna Gould, $15,000,000, Count Boni de Castellane, who spent her money on other women, abused and struck her. ¶Lilian May, $1,000,000, Lord Bagot, who stopped her from taking her child to church...
...reformist leader, Abdul Rahman Bakir−who promptly took refuge in Nasser's Cairo. The British Foreign Office, however, disturbed by Egypt's growing influence in Bahrein and anxious to avoid another blow to British prestige like Jordan's unseemly ouster of Lieut. General John Bagot Glubb (TIME, March 12), pressured Belgrave to get out while the getting was good. Last week, in a brief dispatch from "our own correspondent in Bahrein," the London Times reported that "the Sheik of Bahrein has with reluctance accepted the resignation of Sir Charles Belgrave, his adviser for over 30 years...
...Britain, which has completed only one major hospital since World War II, and has a majority of hospitals over 50 years old, lags far behind Western Europe in facilities for the sick, Liverpool Surgeon James Bagot Oldham complained in a letter to the London Times. Said a colleague: "Our hospitals are like broken-down, back-street pubs compared with modern luxury hotels. The beer is just as good, but that's all you can say in their favor...
...summary dismissal of Lieut. General John Bagot Glubb by Jordan's King Hussein, the rioting on Cyprus, the general state of things on the Mediterranean rim, seemed to have aroused Britain to its suddenly perilous position in the Middle East. Reports of Egyptian officers training in Poland, of heavy shipments of Soviet arms brought renewed doubts that the stubbornly held policy of declining an arms race was serving its purpose. With Communist arms, Premier Abdel Gamal Nasser's vaunted dream of creating an Arab empire to thrust the West from the Middle East and North Africa as well...
...center of these clutching pressures was the slim, short, 20-year-old youngster who is King of Jordan. The British used to call Hussein (rhymes with Biscayne) "a nice little King." Now, since he peremptorily fired Britain's Lieut. General John Bagot Glubb as head of the Arab Legion, they are not so sure. Neither, apparently, is Hussein...