Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supports legitimate Middle East nationalism, but not at the price of disrupting Western unity. "The Western powers can gain, rather than lose, from an orderly development of self-government," said the Secretary. He thought the U.S. could act the role of honest broker in the Middle East, e.g., help find a solution that will reconcile "Egyptian sovereignty and international concern" in the Anglo-Egyptian Suez base dispute...
...Italy's first general-election campaign since 1948 went into the final week, two of the extremists' leaders, Communist Palmiro Togliatti and Monarchist Achille Lauro, took to their beds, white with exhaustion, but Premier Alcide de Gasperi, thinner and older (72) than either, seemed to gain strength. He abandoned his campaign train and took to the air, flying to Sardinia and Sicily to rally the voters...
Matthews South, trailing by four points, ended up in second place, with Holworthy--leader at the end of vacation--in third. Wigglesworth West made up a 30 point deficit in little over a month to gain the crown...
...Persley outpunched and outboxed Percy Basset last night to gain a decision in a 10-round bont...
Fieser commented on a survey he has just completed of the grades made in his Chemistry 20 course by students who asked him to recommend them for medical school admission. Out of 112 students who last year asked him for recommendations, only nine failed to gain admission...