Word: closers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...living standards of our population and saving them from dwelling in slums." Aside from this vague expression of good intentions, the new military rulers had no political program at all. But, because the tide of Arab nationalism was running high everywhere, Colonel Aref had a somewhat hazy idea for closer relations with Nasser's United Arab Republic. In Kassem's mind was a similarly muddled idea for setting up a neutralist Iraqi state...
...small, twin-engined plane had apparently been flying low, and investigators guessed that the distinguished passenger in the copilot's seat must have ordered the pilot to do so because he wanted to get a closer look at the coffee plantations he owned in the area. The plane never reached its destination. Two days later a search party found its wreckage-and with it the body of the distinguished passenger: Barthélémy Boganda, 48, Premier of the Central African Republic...
...weather no longer depressed him, for that had improved, but something that he could not pin down bothered him, something about the atmosphere of the University itself. Looking ahead of him, Vag could see his future stretching like a straight railroad track, the parallel rails appearing to come closer together as they ran across his mental landscape...
...Clubs decided to make the study because of a speech last January by Meade Alcorn, Republican National Committee Chairman. "Alcorn told Republicans to get closer to the people, and we're trying to find out how to do this," Richard A. Derham '62, chairman of the "Ward 4 Project," said yesterday...
...anxious time for the Administration and many dormitory residents. On the first Saturday of the month, a Claverly Hall blaze forced students out of bed and into the street. Damages were set at $65,000 by fire marshals, who suspected that the blaze was intentionally started in a closer. Irate students blamed the University for irresponsibility in connection with the fire. Harvard, in turn, announced that it was under contract for the rooms and could take no responsibility for damages to student property in case of fires. The following Monday a second serious blaze arose at Claverly. There...