Word: beeston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rebels by Phone. British Newsmen Richard Beeston of the London News Chronicle and John Mossman of the London Daily Herald hung their cab with pictures of Nasser to disarm Iraqi border guards, drove through 130° heat from Damascus to Baghdad. (From the Herald's foreign desk to Mossman came the wry plea: "For God's sake, put up the meter flag!") TIME-LIFE'S Correspondent Robert Morse and Photographer Larry Burrows made it along the same route, found Baghdad street peddlers doing a brisk trade hawking pictures of the mutilated bodies of Premier Nuri asSaid...
Lady for a Day. In Beeston, England, when none of the local girls' mothers would let them take the part, the council selected Dennis Harratt, a 27-year-old railway clerk, to play Lady Godiva (in tights) in the town pageant...
Emergency. In seaside Beeston Regis, England, parishioners petitioned the council to start a fund for moving the church inland before the sea washes it away, a date set by erosion experts...