Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also learned that he could charm people. He used his charm on all who could help his ambitions (which were great even then) in the declining days of the Ottoman Empire. While he charmed the Turks, who considered him an outstanding member of Parliament, he was also active in the secret anti-Turkish societies which fostered Arab nationalism. His chief aim: to increase the power and domain of the Hashimites...
...their part, moderate Zionists wanted to make a settlement which would let them go back to the job of building Israel, free of Arab attacks. Without outside help on a lavish scale, they could not support the present war budget of $48 million a year, or spare workers from field and factory for front-line duty...
...revolution's social legislation. For victory on June 1, he counts on three factors: 1) popular dissatisfaction over black markets, price profiteering, 100 unpunished political murders; 2) dissension inside the Prio camp; 3) Independent Candidate Eddy Chibas' ability to take votes away from Prio and thus to help the Nunez campaign...
Tired but happy: Denmark's King Frederik and Queen Ingrid, after a holiday at their hunting lodge. The maid fell ill and couldn't work. A neighbor found the Queen with a dishrag, begged to help out in some way. Came the King's voice from another room: "Do not think of that ... I have to do the vacuum-cleaning...
What could be done about malarial mosquitoes which escape DDT campaigns? Four war-born drugs help their victims, the conference was told: 1) chloroquine, more active than quinine or atabrine, and much less toxic; 2) pentaquine, which has reduced the relapse rate in the vivax form of malaria from 98% to 25%; 3) iso-pentaquine, a variant of pentaquine, so far tried on only 100 cases; 4) Paludrine, which controls vivax malaria with a single dose...