Word: casablanca
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What was bothering Hassan was the state of the nation, which was dreadful. Business was stagnant. Half the Moroccan work force was underemployed, and one man in ten had no work at all. In the largest city, Casablanca, student mobs last March battled police and soldiers and ran up a death toll of 200. Foreign reserves were dangerously low, while inflation soared, and crates of furniture clogged the docksides as some 40,000 exasperated foreigners prepared to leave for good. In Parliament, half a dozen political parties bickered endlessly-in two years of debating, the House of Representatives has managed...
...Road to Rome" during the crucial year 1942, from the Casablanca Conference to the invasions of Sicily and Italy and the fall of Mussolini...
...River, a terraced agricultural complex in the rough Rif country, and new tourist hotels along the coast. More important, Hassan has pushed his country toward democracy, with free elections and a freewheeling legislature. Is all this really enough? No, suggested the mobs that swept down the labyrinthine alleys of Casablanca with the violence of the harmattan, Morocco's fierce desert wind...
Churchill was one of the "Big Three" who directed the Allies' war efforts. He and President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 signed the Atlantic Charter in 1941. Later Churchill met with other Allied leaders at Casablanca, Tehran, Quebec, and Yalta, and urged them to demand the unconditional surrender of Germany and to set up a United Nations Organization...
Toward the end, Bogie's hard composure falters momentarily, "We'll always have Paris. We'd lost that until you came to Casablanca," but Claude Raines puts things back in perspective with the most often quoted line from any Bogart movie: "Round up the usual suspects...