Word: directed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...life had been one long schooling in the devious ways of Arab rivals-and of great powers. Abdullah was born in Mecca 66 years ago, into one of the proudest families of Islam, the Hashimites, in the 39th generation in direct line from the Prophet Mohamed. He was the son of Hussein, Sherif of Mecca. From the age of eleven he grew up at the court of the Turkish tyrant Abdul Hamid in Constantinople, where he was, like other children of notables, a hostage for the good behavior of his father. There the boy Abdullah learned languages .(besides Arabic...
...Manhattan dress designer named Wilma announced a new specialty-wedding dresses for divorcees. She suggested a pink silk shantung suit for the second marriage, a black silk faille suit with a crystal embroidered lace blouse for the third. Said Wilma: "The bride's sophistication should increase in direct ratio to the marriage multiple...
...cost its conquerors untold blood and pain. But now, quotations are confused. Direct bargaining between East and West is deadlocked. The conquerors no longer meet in the Allied Control Council: this highest official level was sliced away when Marshal Vasily Sokolovsky walked out last March 20 (TIME, March 29). Until this week, however, they still met in the lower-echelon Kommandatura, charged with the day-to-day business of running the capital. Here, each fortnight, white-haired Soviet General Alexander Kotikov rose to read an hour-long prepared indictment of the Western powers, then comfortably settled his 215 pounds...
Pike, who had risen to brigadier general and was killed in the War of 1812, was buried some 1,700 miles away, in a military cemetery in the quiet Lake Ontario fishing village of Sackets Harbor, N.Y. But the Chamber of Commerce was hopeful: Pike's direct descendants had already approved the transfer of his body...
Died. William S. (Signius Wilhelm Poul) Knudsen, 69, plain-spoken mass production genius, who left the General Motors presidency in 1940 to direct the U.S. armament program; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Detroit. Danish-born "Big Bill" Knudsen arrived in the U.S. with $30 in 1899, went to work in a shipyard, got a job in 1911 with Henry Ford and became his right-hand man. After a policy row in 1921, he went over to G.M. and soon made Chevrolet the competitor that killed the Model...