Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play with the Djilas' three-year-old son. A spy was planted in the grocery where the family bought its food. When these methods failed to shake the stubborn Djilas, the authorities insisted that he leave his old apartment for another in a house not yet built. Fearing that he was being run into the ground, Djilas wrote a letter to his friend, Morgan Phillips, general secretary of the British Labor Party...
Luckily the twelve-story, balconied Hotel El Panama, built five years ago with an Export-Import Bank loan, can luxuriously house hundreds in the presidential parties, including ambassadors attending the concurrent meeting of the Organization of American States. President Eisen hower very likely will stay at the spacious hilltop U.S. embassy residence near by, and other Presidents might also prefer their own embassies, technically native soil. But advisers, minor officials and many newsmen may wind up billeted at U.S. military posts in the Canal Zone...
...Alps. "Are you going to let it be said that Protestants build better things than you?" he cried to the Viscianesi. "You have a reputation for never protesting. Are you going to let it be said that you also never build anything? Are things going to be built in the Alps but not around the place on Monte Vergine where the Virgin Mary appeared in 1597 to save Visciano from pestilence and hunger? Saint Francis, when he was building his monastery at La Verna, promised: 'He who gives me a stone will have reward for one stone...
...Surabaya, East Java, to a Balinese mother, Javanese father, who taught school for a living. Although few natives learned to read under the Dutch, received a rare civil engineer degree at Bandung Technical Institute, entitling him to precede his name by Ir. (Dutch contraction for engineer). But Ir. Sukarno built little, instead bent himself to destroying Dutch rule. The Dutch jailed him in 1929 and kept him jailed or exiled for twelve of the next 13 years. In 1942 the Japanese army smashed over 300 years of Dutch rule in eight days, freeing Sukarno and other nationalists...
HUGE POWER PLANT will be built on Alabama's Coosa River by Georgia Power Co. and Alabama Power Co., both subsidiaries of South's sprawling Southern Co. To cost $150 million, coal-fueled plant will produce 1,000,000 kw. of power, enough to serve 2,000,000 people in fast-growing area. Two 250,000-kw. units will be completed by 1961, remaining...