Word: kingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...single city, Sidi Ifni (pop. 10,000), has been used by the Spanish as the seat of the governor of all its desert provinces-Ifni, Rio de Oro, Spanish Sahara, as well as the part of southern Morocco that they have continued to rule on the ground that King Mohammed's government is unable to establish its authority there. Last week, with Moroccans encircling Sidi Ifni's tightly held perimeter, Madrid merged all the rest of its West African colonies under one military governor, and set up the new administration at the fortified town of Aiun, 250 miles...
Morocco's King Mohammed V declines to admit that the 12,000-man Liberation Army even exists. To repeated protests of the army's "aggressions," complained Spain's War Minister Antonio Barroso recently, all Spain has got back "are replies that Spain was responsible for them...
...always bought up threatened nearby properties dirt-cheap before dousing the flames), he picked up many a real-estate bargain from cash-short owners in the course of cutting through the Duce's grandiose streets and squares. By 1937 Vaselli was known as the "garbage baron" and "asphalt king." And when typhus broke out again in Rome, Mussolini blamed him. After a vast check, Vaselli took Mussolini early one morning to a Roman creamery. There the Duce saw that the milkmaids, bent on beautifying their skins, were taking baths in the milk before it was bottled. The furious Duce...
...jury, the first two answers were easy: yes on both counts. The issue of negligence developed into a long-distance battle between two giants of medical science. From Pittsburgh came a massive, 142-page deposition by Vaccinventor Jonas E. Salk, called by the plaintiffs' resourceful, aggressive Attorney Melvin ("King of Torts") Belli (pronounced bell-eye). Though Dr. Salk expressed no overt criticism of Cutter, if the jury believed him it had to conclude that something went wrong at Cutter. For Salk stuck doggedly to his view that the killing of polio virus with formaldehyde solution to make a safe...
...fight was a "must" for DeMarco, who was knocked out by Akins Oct. 29 in the 14th round. Tony had been world welter king in 1955, but lost by knockouts to Carmen Basilio in a title defense and a later rematch...