Word: fourteens
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...army Free Officers Committee that fired King Farouk and installed Naguib as ruler of Egypt has come to be known as The Fourteen. From the beginning they all knew that one of their number-Captain Yussef Sadek-was married to a Communist and himself talked like one. Still, Captain Sadek worked hard, did the jobs assigned to him efficiently and well...
...time went on, The Fourteen began to be aware of distressing leaks: the local Communists were tipped off and ready for everything. Even knowing what they did about Captain Sadek, The Fourteen hesitated to act against...
Sadek was ordered to appear before Naguib's No. 2 man, Lieut. Colonel Abdel Nasser; he was asked whether he had made the remarks. Hotheadedly, Sadek answered yes, and what's more, he wanted five anti-Communists ousted from The Fourteen; he also demanded that martial law be lifted and imprisoned Reds be released...
...would not be allowed to return. ¶The McCarran Committee learned from State Department officials that since 1949 the Department has told the U.N. that 40 of the 1,794 Americans on the U.N.'s staff were bad security risks. Twenty-six had been fired by Lie. Fourteen others were still on the U.N. payroll because, said Lie, the State Department had not given him any evidence supporting the charges. Senator Alexander Wiley, a member of the U.S. delegation, accused State of "willful blindness" in the matter, chided Lie for not looking into the employees' record...
...matadors today was a small boy of fourteen years, who survived a couple of run-ins with the bull and went on to defeat him. This brave lad possessed all the gestures of the old pros and he put on the best show of them all. No matter what you may think of bull-fighting or the kid's chances of retiring at sixty-five in one piece, you have to recognize his as an exhibition of guts and skill. He was Albie Booth cracking a beefy line, he was Bobby Schantz beating the Yankees...