Word: bin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...school for the first time. Any student -male or female-who can win admission to a foreign university receives full expenses and a generous living allowance. Of his own eight sons, Feisal has sent the youngest seven abroad for schooling, including his bright, second oldest son Prince Mohamed bin Feisal, 29, the country's first royal prince ever to graduate from a university anywhere...
...with B.U. a man short. The lead stood up for about six minutes until B.U.'s Maxwell Gruy stuffed in a rebound of his own shot. B.U.'s second penalty cost them as heavily as the first: Pete Haley broke the tie four seconds after Ed Wright entered the bin...
...Frankfurt, if you ask for frankfurter Wurst, you will be served a pair of hors d'oeuvre-size smoked sausages with a slice of bread. In Hamburg, if you ask for a hamburger, the man behind the counter will say, "Ich bin ein Hamburger! Everyone who lives here is a Hamburger!" And when you are in a German beer hall, don't bellow out that favorite of American rathskellers-"Ist das nicht ein Schnitzelbank? Ja, das ist ein Schnitzelbank"-everyone will think you're crazy, except, of course, the American tourists at the next table, who will...
...outpost for nine hours against the attacks of 5,000 Indians. The Nawab prepared to order a general retreat, but he did not have to: Drake retreated first. In a panic he abandoned a key position-and then hid in a cellar, where he fell asleep on a storage bin. After he woke up, Drake took his first and last decisive action. He strode to the riverbank, jumped into a rowboat, and was last seen shinnying shamelessly aboard a merchantman moored near the fort...
...Coal Bin Sessions. The ebullient Miss Rice publishes a yearly newsletter filled with members' adventures in impromptu music-making in far-off lands and chatty items about "an intradirectory wedding, bassoon-C to cello-D." Membership ranges from Foreign Policy Association President Samuel Hayes (viola-B) to a Manhattan night elevator operator (cello-B) who held wee-hour sessions in the coal bin of his building. Says Miss Rice: "There are a great many of us queer ducks who really love to play just for the sheer...