Word: hardes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Former Defense Minister Mohammed Ayub Khuhro, 60, long a dominating figure in Pakistan politics, was convicted of selling his 1958 Chevrolet on the black market for $12,000, almost three times the legal ceiling. He was fined $30,000 and sentenced to five years at hard labor. One of Karachi's main streets, named for him, would have to be renamed, and in prison he would get the "C" treatment instead of the "A" and "B" amenities (newspapers, private cells) usually reserved for people of his status. Shudders could be detected all over Karachi...
...Frustrated? Zsa Zsa has ideas about the book: "I know practically everyone in the whole world," she says in her rich Hungarian accent, which is as hard to render in print as Eliza Doolittle's cockney. "I want to make it clear that I'm not just the dumb blonde who wisecracks...
...cordially disliked by most Sunmen. Swangard thought that Scott was too close to his staff to be a good boss, and had mistakenly tried to run the whole paper as a column. Boomed Swangard: "All I want is production. We don't need gimmicks and flash; we need hard-nosed reporting, honesty, accuracy and depth...
...North, the revolution in farming came at precisely the right time. Twenty years ago Warren North could not afford a pair of new work shoes; he did his chores in an overshoe and a boot. Today, by taking full advantage of all the scientific advances, plus an amount of hard work that would have broken a weaker man, North is comfortably a millionaire. But he remembers every struggling step of the way up. Born in 1913 on the farm he now owns, near Brookston (pop. 1,100), in northwest Indiana, North started in field work at the age of seven...
...gave to the poor what he stole from the rich, he would still be damned for a Hood. What with the conservative temper of the times, and a series of union scandals, the authors could never quite raise the money fof a Broadway production-a difficulty that is not hard to understand. Even in this cautious rewrite, the story often sounds like a blatant apology for crooked labor leaders...