Word: joined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Iraq's grey eminence, ex-Premier Nuri asSaid, who had risked most in making Iraq the only Arab nation to join the pact, came to Ankara with more specific demands. The U.S., Nuri insisted, must make up its mind to become a full member of the Baghdad Pact. He also wanted the U.S. to espouse a settlement for Palestine which would cut Israel back to its 1947 borders. Nuri hinted that if his demands were not met, Iraq's interest in staying in the pact would be scant indeed...
...quiet man, always neatly dressed, always polite to his neighbors. Félicie was a short, plump, sad-eyed widow with bobbed greying hair. Eleven months ago she disappeared. Clé explained, "Félicie has gone to Italy. Life is much easier there. I will soon join her." But to occasional callers who rang the bell and asked for her, Charles Clément was more truthful: "Madame cannot be disturbed. She is in the bathtub...
...Liberals, with almost as many seats (106) in the House of Commons as the Conservatives (113), have refused so far to vote no confidence in the government and so precipitate another election. But now with a new leader, a fresh platform and reawakened aggressiveness, they may decide to join forces with one of the two minor parties, vote down the government, compel a new election. Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, watching the Liberal convention last week on TV from his bedroom, where he was recuperating from a wrenched back, gave back the challenge. He was expected to call...
...boys' hot-rod group, "family festivals," camps for all ages, a radio program, a chatty church newspaper, ten choirs ("SING! SING! SING!" says a recruiting pamphlet). In a recent sermon, one minister ruefully quoted a newcomer as saying to another: "I guess I'll have to join that damned church to get acquainted...
Traditionally, the Chief Marshal is chosen from the 25th year class. Dr. Hardy is vice-Chairman of the 25th Reunion Committee for the class of 1933, and will join his classmates in their reunion to be held in the Yard immediately following Commencement...