Word: deserts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tempting morsel that they won't be able to wait to eat it. However they quickly wait to eat it. However they quickly discover, to their surprise, that it is nothing but an excellent imitation. It's a good joke to play on your unsuspecting guests serving it for desert instead of the real ice cream. Well made and can be used over and over again...
What the Russians have to fear from Mao's China is not that it will desert to the West or "pull a Tito," but that it will one day seize leadership of the Communist world. In public, Russian leaders are determinedly cheerful about their relations with Peking, but three weeks ago U.S. Pundit Walter Lippmann returned from a trip to Moscow to report that Russian reactions to China's "great leap forward" varied between "awe and anxiety." The vast geographical vacuum between the two countries is being competitively filled-by Khrushchev's reclamation of the Central Asian...
When election day finally came, 60 delegates assembled in the Grand Hall of the Patriarchate-archbishops in long beards and flowing black robes, city dwellers from Beirut and Damascus in Western suits and tarbooshes, Christians from the Hauran Desert in Arab headdresses. Each delegate was allowed three nominations. In the balloting, 42 votes went to Archbishop Ignatius Hraike, a stern Arab nationalist from Hama, Syria, 32 votes went to 73-year-old Archbishop Theodosios Abu Rajaili of Tripoli, oldest of the archbishops. Tied for third place were pro-Soviet Candidate Ghea and young Archbishop Elias Moawad of Aleppo, reputedly...
...Saragossa's Los Monegros plains would have to be done over somewhere else. (Saragossa has already turned too cold.) Scouting parties spread out to the Canary Islands, and Málaga and Almeria on Spain's south coast. But it is not easy to find a sunny desert replete with enough Spanish soldiers (about 2,000) and enough horses (about 200). For a while, Ty's business partner, Ted Richmond, even considered Israel, finally gave up the idea because of a shortage of Israeli troops and possible international complications. ("What would Nasser say if we gave real...
When Mrs. Pusey moved to Cambridge, she gave up her vacations at the "clear, cold, and beautiful" lake near the Woodward home in Iowa, and now spends summers with her family in Mt. Desert, Maine, enjoying mountain climbing and sailing with friends. An eight foot pram, built in the basement of 17 Quincy Street, and a battered kayak which was given to Nathan, Jr., are the only family-owned boats...