Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...title of police-court judge." He entered the Army as a lieutenant in 1942, held down various Stateside desk jobs for four years, emerged as a lieutenant colonel ("That shows the Army wasn't very fussy about the way it promoted people"). Returning to North Dakota, he built a prosperous general practice, worked hard for every civic drive and organization in sight (Elks, Knights of Columbus, American Legion, Forty and Eight, Exchange Club), and won statewide respect as executive director of the North Dakota Bar Association...
...corn prices fell too low, farmers would take advantage of cheap feed and raise so many piglets that a hog glut would result. Benson might have added that the cheap-corn danger is a result of the chronic corn surplus, which in turn is a result of, the jerry-built federal price-support programs...
...many ways it was Pibul more than any other Thai leader who built modern Thailand. He is a pensive sort of man, a firm-believer in the predictions of his personal astrologers, and in recent years has indicated often that he would like to retire. But, he would say, "there are only three ways to remove a dictator: by exile, jail or burial...
That night amazed police described the weapon that had brought Marcel Leopold low: a hollow dart, built along the lines of a two-stage rocket, which was shot from a blowpipe to strike the murdered man's flesh, and then released a sharply pointed lead bullet from its tip to penetrate his vitals. Had it also carried a load of deadly poison on its point? The police were not quite sure. Neither did they have an idea of who might have fired it. "All we know," said one official spokesman, "is that this doesn't look like...
...plan has several advantages. It saves on space and cost by eliminating many corridors and entry-ways. (The House will be built for about half what it would cost to reproduce one of the seven original Houses...