Word: friendly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Best Friend...
...world affairs with the brinkmanship of Mr. Dulles, and has seized the chance to set his capacity for firm decision against the indecision of President Eisenhower. He is not a politician with deep conviction or strong affiliations to any factional interest. But while he may be nobody's friend, his lonely career suggests that he may be nobody's stooge...
...unhappy fact that his host had become ill right after bidding him welcome. When the President two days later invited the King to his bedroom for an informal visit, Mohammed spent a quiet ten minutes with Ike, told him: "We say in Morocco that one's best friend is his doctor. So will you please consider me as a doctor...
...time of last year's independence declaration, when he was trying to make a reputation as a special friend of the Arabs, Franco secretly agreed to cede Southern Morocco to the Moroccans some time in the future. He has since changed his mind. Reason: prospectors have found indications that the sandy wastes of Spanish Sahara, like the French Sahara farther east, may hold oil, a resource to be found nowhere else in Spanish territory. At week's end. Franco rushed 3,500 more troops into Ifni and had beefed up his Spanish West Africa garrison...
...quarrel, but in effect charged with homosexuality, Verlaine was sentenced to two years' imprisonment at hard labor. Later a Paris court awarded Mathilde a separation decree. These catastrophes, in the opinion of British Biographers Lawrence and Elisabeth Hanson, proved the making of Verlaine. Stripped of both wife and friend, he went straight to the prison chaplain, asked to be received back into the church. He "happily began to write religious poems" and, on his release from prison, lived for years without love or liquor. He explained: "I'm fighting to put down that...