Word: bou
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slabs, used to anchor bridges, were hurled downstream. An irrigation project that took two years and $7,000,000 to construct was washed away in six hours. As late as last week the Mediterranean was still an oozing ochre sore from the Gulf of Tunis to the Gulf of Bou Grara because of topsoil washed into the sea by the boiling rivers...
...exited from the courtroom in a rain of spring flowers, the crowd shouted, "We're with you, Irina!" When one furious KGB guard stomped on a bou quet, a girl friend of Irina's grabbed it and struck the secret policeman on the head with the flowers. After a scuffle, Irina was spirited off to prison in a truck that looked like a bread-delivery wagon. Russian spectators recalled a sim ilar scene in the last chapter of Al exander Solzhenitsyn's novel The First Circle, when the hero, Gleb Nerzhin, is carried off to a Stalinist...
Emerging from his weekly Cabinet meeting in Algiers' Palais du Gouvernement, Algerian President Houari Bou-mediene climbed into his black Citroën to go to lunch with Minister of State Rabat Bitat. As the car began to roll down the Esplanade de 1'Afrique, a child stepped forward with a petition...
...tough as he was in the cities, Ben Bella faced a much more difficult prospect in the mountains. At week's end, as government troops sat nervously in Biskra, and occupied the isolated towns of Bou-Saada and Djelfa as well, it was clear that Chaabani is as safe in the Aures heights as Ait Ahmed is in the Kabylia. Both know their high redoubts inside out. And a punitive expedition mounted by Ben Bella could lead to a long guerrilla war like the very one that gained Algeria its independence...
...Bella, at least temporarily in control as head of Algeria's Political Bureau, gave the voters no alternative to a single list of 196 candidates. The list had been purged of 59 names, including such Ben Bella opponents as ex-Premier Benyoussef Ben-khedda, Guerrilla Heroine Djamila Bou-hired, who had been tortured by French paratroops, and Mustapha Lacheraf, who spent five years in French jails as a fellow prisoner of Ben Bella. One unpurged candidate, Mohammed Boudiaf, refused to serve because "the lists haven't been chosen in a democratic manner...