Word: equipped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sometimes generous but misguided. He presented a royal tract to a Bedouin tribe, only to discover the land was already occupied by several hundred Palestinian refugees. What ideas he had were more grandiose than practical. He wanted Jordan, which has not enough money to build its own roads, to equip itself with a first-class jet air force. Once he turned to senior officers and asked: "Why can't we attack? If there's a war, let's march on Tel Aviv." General Glubb patiently took him on a tour of the 350-mile Israeli frontier...
...University must therefore either make its administrators into planning experts and equip them with pertinent information, or it must call on outside assistance. The first course requires expensive additions to the administrative staff, giving Teele's office the time and facilities to do an adequate job. The second requires nothing but exploitation of existing resources...
...week's end the first 500 volunteers left Jerusalem for Negev villages. When trade union federation bosses voted to demand a 5% wage rise, Premier David Ben-Gurion delivered a slashing attack on them for blindness to the need for sacrifices. "The question is," he said, "shall we equip army, navy and air force to enable them to repel the enemy or shall we raise our standard of living?" The answer came from the trade union's own newspaper Davar: "The nation must gird itself for a regime of austerity, self-denial and sacrifice...
Orangeade and Opium. The first subject Norodom took up with his people last week was foreign policy. Cambodia, he said, would join Nehru's neutralist bloc, and at the same time it would accept U.S. military aid to equip an army of 40,000. If this seemed a little contradictory, Norodom added without batting an eyelid: "With this aid we will maintain a strong army even if America and Russia shake hands tomorrow." His public murmured assent at their Premier's wisdom...
...Russian commitment to build and equip a technical institute in Rangoon...