Word: barkely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with them. They were even angrier at Britain both for its support of Jordan and its recognition of Israel. And they strongly suspected the U.S. of winking at British maneuvers in the Middle East. Outraged as most Arab League nations were, however, there was little they could do but bark indignantly in the direction of Abdullah. With British backing, Jordan seemed secure in its new domain...
...That people pull down their houses, sell their wives and daughters, eat roots and carrion, clay and leaves, is news nobody wonders at. It is the regular thing . . . The poorest people are dependent on willow and elm leaves, elm bark, and the various weeds . . . All the elm trees about many of the villages are stripped of their bark as high as the starving people can manage to get; they would peel them to the top but haven't the strength...
...first business before Monday's meeting was the election of various town officials-among them Fence-viewer, Surveyor of Lumber and Bark, and Clam Commissioner. The next items in the warrant covered every sort of town problem: among them a plant to install parking meters in the center of town, appropriations for the repair of the Town Wharf, the need for a new fire engine. Each article in the warrant had been considered by the town's Finance Committee, a part appointive, part elective board, and this committee made recommendations to the meeting...
...Yugoslav Parliament, Foreign Minister Edvard Kardelj last week boasted: "Relations with the United States, Great Britain and France have been improved . . . The U.S.S.R. has said that no country can exist unless it is under the thumb of a hegemonistic power . . . We have proved it can . . . While dogs bark, the caravan passes...