Word: depend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Egypt's ambitious Anglophile Premier Mustafa El Nahas Pasha, an active champion of an Arab federation, reprimanded Algiers. To captive President Khoury, Egypt's King Farouk sent a message: "We are sure the Lebanese will secure their independence. [They] can depend on our friendship in this critical hour." Syrian, Egyptian and Iraqi Arabs stirred angrily...
...Most of the German people are now thoroughly weary, willing to buy peace at any reasonable price. But these Germans are totally in the power of other Germans who have no such reason for quitting, whose very lives depend upon sustaining the fight...
...Falange is the only party on which Franco can depend. Yet it is exactly the party which will strive most vigorously to block any monarchist deal he might hope to offer the ascendant democracies. All this must be bitter drink for Franco, a proud man, who has himself assumed much of the panoply of royalty in Madrid. He appears at public functions surrounded by an entourage of aides and has a lordly way of refusing to see foreign ambassadors in person. Madrid gossips have long whispered that Franco dreams of founding a dynasty of his own. He might, they murmur...
Surgeons now depend on 1) thin grafts which can be done in one operation; 2) a skin flap from near by; 3) a tubed pedicle (when some thickness is needed) which requires three operations about three weeks apart...
...fact that Pope Pius XII is in effect a Nazi-held prisoner. Said he: the Allied armies marching northward in Italy are on a kind of crusade to liberate Rome, the Vatican and Pope Pius XII. How much damage is done to the Eternal City, he indicated, will depend largely on the fight the Germans make...