Word: brought
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...calmly aside, officials examined everything in his luggage. Reason for the bureaucrats' interest: on the flight home, Kenya's most dynamic African leader had stopped off at Tunis to meet with other leaders of the All-African People's Conference, formed last year in Ghana, which brought together for the first time African leaders from every corner of the continent...
...storm of protest against Fidel Castro's confiscatory agrarian-reform law * rolled into the acoustic-walled Cabinet room in Havana's presidential palace one night last week and brought on the first major split in the Cuban revolution. From 9 p.m. until 2 a.m., ministers snapped at each other across the oval mahogany table. For five of his 20 ministers, Castro had short, blunt rebukes...
...inevitable," the warning could hardly be heard for the sounds of high living. Over street fires, outdoor laborers at noonday broiled tender chunks of marbled beef that cost 8? a pound; white-collar workers lunched in restaurants on 17? beefsteaks so large they overlapped the dinner plates. Sundays brought an outdoor churrasco (barbecue) that began with meaty ravioli, went on to beef broiled over a pit fire...
...books with four mighty swings of his 33-oz. bat. His fourth straight homer, a long blast into the left-field bleachers some 410 ft. away, came in the ninth inning off Baltimore Orioles Reliefer Ernie Johnson, who had not allowed a homer all season. What was more, Colavito brought off his feat in a park rated the toughest in the league for home-run hitters-no team has ever hit more than three home runs there in a single game...
...sudden shifts of mood and attention are as striking offscreen as on. The core of her life, she insists, is her family, her Japan-based husband Steve Parker and her two-year-old daughter Stephanie. Friends still remember with a kind of awed surprise the evening she brought Steffie to a party, stuck the child in a wicker basket and put her in a closet to sleep. Later the party moved off in search of a progressive jazz pianist who was never found. Far later it wound up at a nightspot called the Crescendo. Steffie was still in the closet...