Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dream. The economies of Egypt and Syria are far from complementary. They are separated by 150 miles and Israel, their avowed common enemy. But the proposed state answers to the most emotional political idea in the Middle East-the cherished Arab dream that Arab-speaking peoples should cast off the artificial borders imposed on them by the colonial powers, and assert the essential unity of "the Arab Nation...
...Dakar, and with trying to get German arms for use against the Maquis, Guérard, now 60, declared that it was all a double game to fool the Germans. His espousal of the occupation in a 1943 lecture, he testified urbanely, was "merely a defense of the European idea...
...royal couple decided on a new approach. Marijke. who is blind in one eye and has only partial vision in the other, had been sheltered from normal children's activities, and a helping hand stood by in case she fell. The new approach: let her fall. "The idea," one official explained, "was that she would learn and keep from falling the next time...
...Gurion is still spry, but increasingly conscious of his years. Some suspect he had deliberately ordered Dayan out of uniform and into politics with the idea of grooming him as his successor...
...bride, emptying ashtrays, positioning furniture, fidgeting over the least speck of dust. He is strictly an afternoon-and-night man, and his nightly dates require almost as much concentration as riding in horse races. It would not do to let things get mixed up, and the very idea of marriage is disturbing. "My God!" says Willie. "After three years in Miami, I know hundreds and hundreds of dames. I might have to give them up. It's a helluva problem...