Word: finished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nasser's chief rival in the Arab world. What did the program boil down to, a questioner asked: Was it socialism, state capitalism, or what? The official smiled. "We have a good word in Arabic. It is eimar. It means when you finish a house or complete some worthwhile thing, it has a quality of progress. We call our program eimar." Resting overnight in his summer palace at Sarsange, shy, Harrow-educated Feisal found eimar's reception encouraging: "The people seem to feel that we are doing something important for them...
...pair of extraordinarily delicate car conservers, the 400-h.p. Maserati was in fact taking it easy. No one knew better than Fangio and Behra that speed alone is not enough on Sebring's demanding course; the trick is to keep a car going all the way to the finish...
Yale's deep, record-laden squad remains the favorite, however, with Michigan second and Michigan State and Indiana close behind. Harvard, even with the breaks, should finish no higher than fourth or fifth, in a field of fifty-eight teams and no more than 500 swimmers...
Captain Chouteau Dyer is the Crimson's chief hope for points, and he is either favored or co-favored in both of the sprints. If he can win them both, the varsity might be able to finish as high as third. If he somehow gets shut out in them, however, the varsity would almost certainly fall out of the top ten teams...
...means yet definite. Since the raising of reserves is the primary aim of the Reserve Forces Act, it is entirely possible that once the authorized reserve strength is filled, the Act will be discontinued until it is needed again; and since all draftees and enlistees who finish their two years of active duty after August 1957 must spend two years in the ready reserves, reserve and National Guard units may be filled rather rapidly...