Word: expands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...around the Kaaba. Once thousands died of sunstroke or disease, and local Arabs fleeced them of their last pennies. Saud established first-aid stations, erected sun shelters, built a $3,000,000 quarantine station at Jiddah, allocated $132 million to refurbish the Great Mosque, straighten Mecca's streets, expand its accommodations. The pilgrim's head tax (among the chief pre-oil sources of Saudi income) has been abolished. Says Saud: "Let the pilgrim come. I'll pay the tax. Allah has given me the money from...
...some of the tersest repartee since Calvin Coolidge's grunts were supposed to speak volumes, Earl Attlee, 73, Britain's former Laborite Prime Minister, met and bested circling Chicago newshawks. What are the touring earl's impressions of the U.S.? "Very large." Could Attlee expand on that comment a bit? "Very large and very wealthy." Attlee's views on the revolt-torn island of Cyprus: "Difficult problem." Will the U.S.'s new Middle East policy help to warm Anglo-American relations? "Can't tell...
Last fall, Pusey called for one House immediately, and two more as quickly as possible to meet critical overcrowding and the press of more applicants. He added that with these three Houses it might be possible for the College to expand its present enrollment by 20 percent in the next 10 years...
...interested in European integration, because he feels that it is bad for Britain to feel pushed around and overshadowed. Europe has been and still should be a great force in the world. Other areas have combined, and there is no reason Europeans should not combine to assert, protect and expand those valuable things for which they stand in the world. Looking to the future, Macmillan thinks that perhaps one source of increased British self-confidence will be found in closer economic and political ties with Europe. That does not mean weaker ties with...
...equipment." With these words last week, U.S. Steel Chairman Roger M. Blough pointed up a problem that goes far beyond the immediate argument over ODM's refusal to grant fast tax write-offs to ease the steel shortage. The problem: How can U.S. industry continue to replace and expand its plants in an age of tight money, creeping inflation, and rapidly growing obsolescence...