Word: infant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chichester disappeared. Cyprus' independence party noticeably warmed. When 1,600 Greek and Turkish soldiers debarked from their homelands to stand guard duty over the infant republic alongside Cyprus' own future army, one Turkish centenarian fell on a startled Turkish infantryman's neck, blubbered that he had not set eyes on a Turkish uniform since the last Ottoman garrison sailed away in 1878. For Greek Cypriots, the day was made when a plane from Athens landed 21 EOKA terrorists-freedom fighters to the Cypriots-whom the British had exiled 17 months...
...come home to stay, even though his parents would remain in Paris. "I must break all fetters," he said. "I cannot paint as I want when my mother calls me 'Nene' and wants me to drink hot milk before going to bed. Yesterday, Aldo, the infant prodigy, died. Today, Aldo, the painter, is born...
...women's track, Tennessee State's Wilma Rudolph is the star of a U.S. team that is determined to score some surprises against the strong Australians and Russians. The 17th child in a family of 19. Wilma had rheumatic fever as an infant, did not walk until she was seven, and then wore braces for a couple of years. Star pupil of Shotputter O'Brien is Earlene Brown, a 25-year-old Los Angeles housewife, who is now up to a hefty throwing weight of 225 lbs. for the shot and the discus, after slimming down...
...diplomatic maneuver, Hammarskjold had sometimes seemed to falter but in the end prevailed. He steadily pressured the Belgians toward renouncing their angry reoccupation of the Congo that they had so recently freed. He had kept the Congo's erratic politicians, at least for the moment, from plunging their infant nation into civil war, and checked the threatened intervention of such pan-African adventurers as Ghana's Nkrumah and Guinea's Sekou Toure. In the process he had stretched the U.N. Charter into shapes undreamed of by its authors and established the precedents for vastly in creased...
...time the state of Israel was born in 1948, the infant death rate, which had been 140 per 1,000 in 1918, was down to a Western-world normal of 29. Trachoma among schoolchildren was down from 34% to 4.3%, ringworm from...