Word: highe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they left the F.L.N. to resume normal lives in their villages. Several replied in almost friendly fashion, one saying that he wanted to wait and see what came of De Gaulle's forthcoming meeting with the King of Morocco. That meeting, if it takes place, would imply high-level Moslem approval of recent French progress-civil as well as military-in Algeria. But another replied, symbolizing the many Algerians yet to be won over: "You are not fit to serve as the recipient for the excrement of our liberation army...
...blood and by her beauty," cooed Lisbon's largest daily, O Século (circ. 110,000). "and she reflects tenderness and joy." Not since Britain's Queen Elizabeth graced the country two years ago had Portugal so eagerly awaited a guest. And Britain, too, had high hopes for Princess Margaret's "private visit" to England's "oldest ally": her appearance at the Federation of British Industries' $3,000,000 fair in Lisbon might do much to woo Portuguese trade away from the Germans. But by the time Margaret's visit ended last week...
When austerity-minded President Arturo Frondizi predicted last January that "a lowering of the standard of living is inevitable," the warning could hardly be heard for the sounds of high living. Over street fires, outdoor laborers at noonday broiled tender chunks of marbled beef that cost 8? a pound; white-collar workers lunched in restaurants on 17? beefsteaks so large they overlapped the dinner plates. Sundays brought an outdoor churrasco (barbecue) that began with meaty ravioli, went on to beef broiled over a pit fire...
Fish are jumpin', and the cotton is high...
...chiefly due to their efforts to force a mood without really making the material into anything their own. Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, on the other hand, tilt into the lyrics on a new two-LP Verve album with an infectious grace as easy as a ramble through the high cotton. The combination of Armstrong's gravel throat and Ella's honey-clear voice in Bess, You Is My Woman Now makes for the finest reading of the song on records...