Word: downed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bigger Bargains. Egypt, which needs the High Dam at Aswan to help raise the appallingly low standard of living of its people, belatedly hopes to save at least some of its treasure house of antiquities along the Nubian Nile. As a result, it is playing down its habitual nationalist antagonism...
Mahmud thanked his well-wishers and reassured them: "Just now, I did not feel the touch of death. I am filled with calmness. I am traveling to eternity in peace." He submitted once more to the noose. This time the rope held, and Mahmud went to death dancing on air...
Along with a bottomless campaign chest, Garcia & Co. had the advantage of divided opposition: unable to agree on a joint ticket, Vice President Diosdado Macapagal, Garcia-baiting boss of the Liberal Party, and Progressive Manuel Manahan, hailed by his followers as spiritual heir to the late great President Ramon Magsaysay...
Spreading Fever. A secondary imminent problem for the Eisenhower committee to consider is Panama. There last week the government went gunning for Canal Zone Governor William E. Potter, U.S. Army Major General on active service, who a fortnight ago firmly put down riots aimed at raising the Panamanian flag over...
When police found William Flanagan in a Philadelphia gutter, he was barely conscious and obviously suffering from long exposure to the frosty night air. At Hahnemann Hospital, Intern Edward Brunner was still examining Flanagan, 43, a 6-ft.-3-in. laborer, when the patient's heart stopped. Dr. Brunner...