Word: crushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ringleaders. "The sentences,'' said General Naguib, "will be executed immediately and without mercy." Later, emerging from the headquarters mosque at Abbassia, Naguib faced his cheering soldiers and warned them: there are "still in the country elements who are actively working to frustrate our movement. We'll crush them-we'll shoot them if necessary...
...basic remedies for hiccups which Jack has not tried are psychotherapy and an operation to crush the phrenic nerve. But, he has been told, he cannot have the operation until he puts on weight and gains strength, and apparently he cannot do that until he stops hiccuping...
...Schuman Plan had become fact, and with it the ceiling imposed by the Allies on Ruhr steel production was finally lifted. Behind a battery of red gladioli in Luxembourg's City Hall, the men whose job it will be to sweep away Western Europe's tariff walls, crush its cartels, modernize its production methods and sell its coal and steel to all members of the Community on "equal terms" sat together for the first time. They were...
...crusty as McKellar. His friends tried to give Gore's issue a full turn. If the old man is defeated, they said, Tennessee will have two "junior" Senators and no influence in Washington. McKellar, who has ruthlessly used his power to fatten his friends and crush his enemies, talked of his appropriations committee as "the most powerful ... in the world," and pointed out that it took him 29 years to become its chairman. This week, as Tennessee Democrats went to vote for McKellar or Gore in their primary (almost tantamount to election), political observers thought rheumatic...
...down from its eminence of 21,769 ft. upon the 13,400-ft. base camp of six young climbers who had never tackled anything so big in their lives. Jim Maxwell, George Bell, Austen Riggs and Graham Matthews had met at Harvard. The two others, Dave Harrah and Chuck Crush, were Stanford...