Word: es
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Iraqi treaty quickly became fact. Iraq's 67-year-old Premier Nuri es-Said, who was an officer in T. E. Lawrence's World War I desert army against the Turks, pushed the treaty through Iraq's parliament. Turkey's National Assembly ratified it unanimously. Since Turkey is a member of NATO, Iraq became the first of the Arab League states to join the pro-Western chain of alliances...
...varsity's all-out offense left no defensive problems this time. Some of the season's smoothest passwork, es- pecially by the new line of Cleary, Crehore, and Captain Scott Cooledge, continually enable the sextet to dominate play and goalies Charlie Flynn and Jimmy Bailey totaled only nine saves throughout the game...
...league's collective security arrangements. Most of the others shared Egypt's irritation but demurred at going so far. Instead, they persuaded Nasser to adjourn the session while a planeload of Arab League representatives flew off to Baghdad to try to argue Iraq's Premier Nuri es-Said back into the fold...
After seven days of friendly talk in Baghdad, Premiers Adnan Menderes of Turkey and Nuri es-Said of Iraq jointly announced last week their decision to sign a mutual defense pact. Washington and London were pleased: the joining of oil-rich Iraq to NATO member Turkey is the first major break in the log jam of Arab neutrality. But in Cairo, the news caused consternation...
...played the first performance of Roy Harris' Symphonic Epigram. Composer Harris wrote his six minutes of music to commemorate the orchestra's 25th season of CBS broadcasts, used the letters CBS as his motive (he jimmied the letter S into the scale by using its phonetic spelling, Es, which, in German, also means the note E flat). The music was brassy, somber and overwritten, and seemed to be just getting under way when it stopped...