Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...METO nations had declared their trust in the West-and that was perhaps the greatest importance of the Baghdad meeting. In the end, METO will be strong or weak in the exact degree that the West is willing to make...
...would be able to keep order in Morocco's restive land. The Sultan could not trust some 400 pashas and caids (local administrators) who had endorsed his banishment by the French. They, in turn, fearing reprisals from the Sultan's friends, dared not assert their authority or exact their usual tithes from restless Berber tribes. The new French Resident General, Andre Louis Dubois, had turned over much of the police power to Moroccans, concentrating his 100,000 troops in the openly rebellious regions of the North. Neither 20,000 Moroccan militiamen nor the private guard forces of nationalist...
...week's end, unable to pass a satisfactory bill, the Assembly voted to put off debate entirely until the government drafted a new map of electoral districts. With every Deputy's seat at stake, the arguments over the exact boundaries of each district might take months. The French Assembly, which had shown little talent for living, was also showing little grace in dying...
...where he had come from his philosophy studies at Salamanca's Universidad Pontifica. After Mass and breakfast, he climbed into a borrowed car and set out with his cousin and another priest for Cerro de Los Angeles, eight miles south of the city. This rugged hill is the exact geographical center of Spain. On its top once stood a huge monument, topped by a statue of Christ, which Communists dynamited during the civil war; since then, a smaller copy has been erected while a new statue is abuilding nearby...
...very exact definition of this "normalcy," but almost everyone at Yale agrees that it has to be attained if the University is to save itself from the dilution of educational standards they forsee at universities that try to absorb huge future increases in college students...