Word: deadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dead." One motorcyclist roared down Main Street with a wine-swilling companion on his shoulders; another stood on the saddle of his speeding motorcycle and drained a bottle. Others spaced beer cans along the street, wove in and out on their cycles in an impromptu slalom race; soon the steeliest of the girls stood beside the cans as markers. An Angels Camp policeman darted into the street to pick up the beer cans, retreated amid hoots and catcalls when a cyclist buzzed him. Other gangs organized drag races, reached 50 m.p.h. from standing starts. Some settled for simple horseplay...
...heat. Only seven months ago, demonstrating in Karachi's streets, Pakistanis were cursing the name of Britain, Iraq's Premier Nuri asSaid was declaring Iraq would boycott any meeting of the Baghdad Pact attended by Britain, and just about everyone was saying that the Baghdad Pact was dead. But last week as the five members of the Baghdad Pact (Britain, Iraq, Turkey, Pakistan, Iran) met for the first time since the British attack on Egypt, Lloyd and Nuri asSaid were all smiles. Said one U.S. observer: "The biggest thing about this meeting is that it is being held...
What had brought about this revival from the dead? For one, an increased Arab concern over Egypt's President Nasser and his involvement with Russia. For another, the slow recognition that the Eisenhower Doctrine is genuinely intended to help the Middle Eastern nations to preserve their independence and viability. With Saudi Arabia's King Saud shifting his considerable weight to the side of his fellow kings in Iraq and Jordan, the four Moslem pact countries suddenly found that they could safely reassert their common concern against the Communist threat and their membership in a useful instrumentality that...
...Tactfully, the Finns spared B. and K. the customary pilgrimage to the grave of Marshal Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, whose strategic genius cost the Red army nearly 50,000 dead during the Russo-Finnish...
...woman," said fastidious Dr. Yves Evenou of his unlovely mistress Simone Deschamps one day last week, "horrifies me." The doctor's horror was easy enough for the police to understand, for Simone had just plunged a knife into the breast of his wife Marie-Claire, and Marie was dead. This was the truth but not, it turned out, the whole truth...