Word: brought
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...internal free-for-all that followed Pakistan's birth as a nation, Kassim and Abdullah Bhatti, sons of two fisherman brothers, built up a gold-smuggling empire so vast that prices on the Karachi bullion exchange fluctuated whenever the Bhattis brought in a shipment. Commanding a fleet of twelve ships that rendezvoused with contraband-carrying vessels in the Arabian Sea, and using new Chevrolets that easily outran customs officials' Jeeps on Pakistan's unpaved roads, the first cousins became rich men about town. Paunchy Kassim acquired a winning stable of 17 race horses and a taste...
...show of bravado by Paraguayan students brought that country back under jackboot dictatorship...
...showdown began when cops tear-gassed and whipped 800 high school students protesting a trolley-fare hike. The brutality brought out the university students next day. Alarmed, the government canceled the fare hike, but 1,000 students grabbed stones, tree limbs or bicycle pumps, marched into the grounds of Asunción's largest high school chanting: "We will be victorious or die." The cops slammed 30 tear-gas shells into the school grounds and flogged the youths through an Indian gantlet of two rows of police, who beat the students as they fled...
...attack, a moderately severe coronary occlusion, struck a fortnight ago, after Duvalier had worn himself out with a succession of 20-hour days at his desk. Just turned 50, he is also fighting diabetes and high blood pressure. To advise Duvalier's six doctors, U.S. Ambassador Gerald Drew brought in a U.S. Navy specialist in internal medicine from Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and two diagnosticians from Manhattan. Drew called on the President, found him "in good spirits," complied with a presidential request for "some movies, including the one of President Eisenhower's inauguration...
...truck driver and (currently) laboratory clerk in a Philadelphia hospital. The trip to Brussels was made possible by the sale of the family's baby grand, plus a $250 gift from the Cleveland Society for Strings and the loan of a $40,000 Stradivarius. Jaime's victory brought him $3,000 in prize money. He is now concertizing in Belgium, and will soon start practicing for his Manhattan debut -in Carnegie Hall next fall...