Word: baths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...products and from the fact that Russia's achievements in rocketry have created doubts about U.S. technological preeminence. German traders have also won an enviable reputation for fast delivery. Last summer when Saudi Arabia's King Saud decided he needed a three-truck caravan (sleeper with bath, dining car with throne, and a supply van), British and French firms told him he would have to wait six months. West Germany's Daimler-Benz, teaming up with a specialty body firm, did the job in seven weeks...
...recent "blood bath" hysteria which has existed in some quarters, some have lost sight of the fact that not of all the persons tried have been convicted. In Santiago de Cuba, 24 were released, and in Matanzas, 50-odd were set free. It is probably the understatement of the year to say that there has been much misunderstanding lately between the U.S. and Cuba. Our well publicized calls for intervention or punishment in various forms are antagonizing not only the Cubans but people of all Latin American countries. In a conversation with Gustavo Olguin, Mexican movie and television executive...
...thud of Batista's fall reverberated in far-off Paraguay. The official radio, broadcasting from the Interior Ministry, urged Strongman Alfredo Stroessner to proceed with "preventive executions to avoid a blood bath like Cuba's in Paraguay." One night last week, heavily armed police, tipped off by a stoolpigeon network organized by the fugitive Yugoslav war criminal, Ante Pavelic,* charged into Asuncion's southern district. There they seized two boys who, with chunks of clay, were scrawling on house walls an appeal to free political prisoners. Cops sealed off ten blocks of cobblestoned streets, raided houses...
...years, as Princess Elizabeth, she never had a bathroom of her own. When a bath was installed for her, the bath was so pokey that she had to climb into it from the back...
...huts, got bread only when they worked, got seven feet of cloth a year with which to clothe themselves. Bitter and resentful, they never complained, for "everyone is afraid in China." Lo worked 16 hours a day, slept in his clothes to keep warm, did not take a bath for three months. Finally, he hit upon a way to escape...