Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Although he followed his considered judgment of the merits in each case, his votes for the Bricker amendment and against the censure of Joe McCarthy (even the club's pariahs have their rights, reasoned Knowland) further endeared him to the Republican right wing. But there is a wide gulf between Knowland and the Neanderthals-the McCarthys, the Bill Jenners and the "Molly" Malones. The gulf was widened considerably last fall when Knowland campaigned 25,000 miles for Eisenhower and Nixon-and especially when he accepted appointment as a U.S. delegate to the U.N. Knowland owes the Neanderthals nothing...
...sheik, there would be four natural Arab nations: 1) Maghreb in North Africa, 2) the land of the Nile Valley, 3) Arabia Deserta, including not only Saudi Arabia but Yemen and all the little trucial sheikdoms, 4) the Fertile Crescent, stretching from the Mediterranean at Lebanon to the Persian Gulf, and including Syria and Iraq in a unity of the Tigris and Euphrates valleys...
...canal as Egypt's best lever for getting the world to pry Israel out of Sinai and Gaza. The Israelis, who have so far given up barely half of Sinai, are demanding U.N. guarantees that Egypt will neither reoccupy Gaza nor obstruct passage for Israeli ships through the Gulf of Aqaba...
...essentially psychological," and that the important thing is to "gain time, without armed conflict, so as to allow passions to subside." To facilitate this he proposed that the United Nations military force should occupy "not only the Gaza Strip but a corridor of territory running from Gaza to the Gulf of Akbar...
...1920s he joined Galveston's W. L. Moody III, whose father was one of the world's richest men, in creating a mammoth oil, gas and sulphur empire. Cooking deals like popcorn, Odie was one of the founders of Texas Gulf Producing Co., which has large oil reserves in the Gulf states, was one of the powers in what is now Freeport Sulphur Co. He and Moody developed and owned the famed Hugoton natural-gas field in southern Kansas and Oklahoma-"a deal," says a friend, "that has never been equaled in the world -it was worth...