Word: household
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...force officer, was already married to an Egyptian heiress, he fell in love with Nadia and kept trysts with her in London and Lebanon. Finally he asked her to become, as Mohammedan custom allows, his second wife. They were married at Mosul in 1939, lived in Nuri's household in Baghdad, and fled with the rest of Nuri's family to Palestine when a German-backed army coup momentarily toppled his government during World War II. On their return to Baghdad, their son Ahlam was born in 1942. Though at first opposed to the marriage, Nuri Pasha used...
...rebels caught Premier Nuri asSaid, accompanied by two women, and himself veiled and disguised as a woman. The old man, veteran of dozens of battles and revolutionary skirmishes, fired on an Iraqi air force sergeant who seemed to recognize him. Then, according to the former chef of the royal household, who escaped to Ankara with the story, Nuri was stripped of his disguise, impaled alive, and left on public view in the rotting sunlight...
...have more than one in the budget. The great danger, noted the survey, is that further inflation and continuing price rises may discourage future consumer buying. Compared with June 1957, when 42% were fatalistically resigned to a perpetual price spiral, only 28% of U.S. consumers now expect prices of household goods and clothing to keep on going up; the remaining 72% look for mixed movement, no change or a general decline. Thus price becomes an increasingly important factor. Concludes the survey: "Consumer desires and needs for durable goods, homes and additions or repairs to homes are [hardly diminished]. The decline...
Businessmen are often confused by the contradictory actions of the U.S. trustbusters. Last week they had even more reason for confusion. The Federal Trade Commission ruled last month that a merger would not tend automatically to create a monopoly even though it gave 45.6% of the household steel-wool market to one company, Brillo Manufacturing Co. But last week the Justice Department sued to break a deal that would give 21% of the detergent market to Lever Bros...
...from bed to bed, she is asking the sort of defiant, wide-eyed questions that, in fiction anyway, have such a devastating effect on grownups. She is also a determined kiss-and-tell girl, and after sleeping with her stepfather, endlessly discusses the affair with other members of the household. Mother proves the most understanding of the lot, but young Chris is outraged. Says he: "You're too much for me. You look so normal, but you're as mixed up as any of them!" To prove his own normality, he abandons the pursuit of Sally and makes...