Word: lah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Laos (pronounced Lah-oze) is a faithfully Buddhist kingdom known as "the land of a million elephants," which five years ago was carved out of French Indo-China in the Geneva conference after Dienbienphu. It has Communists to the north of it (China), Communists to the east of it (North Viet Nam), and Communists inside it (the Pathet Lao). Only 18 months ago it seemed to be slipping inexorably toward Red rule. As the result of a queer, credulous armistice with its own Communist rebels, the Laotian government reserved two of its Cabinet posts for Communists and agreed to absorb...
...Larrazabal, 46, chief of the Venezuelan navy, and eight other armed-forces officers met secretly at a Caracas military academy at 6 p.m., drew up an ultimatum giving the dictator until 10 p.m. to step down. To make the navy's position unmistakably clear, Rear Admiral Larrazabal (pronounced Lah-rah-sah-bahl) ordered nine destroyers to stand off Caracas' port of La Guaira with their guns trained on the shore. Army commanders, sickened by the sight of Venezuelan killing Venezuelan, joined the admiral's bid to end the fighting. Desperately, the dictator tried to bargain, but this...
...President Eisenhower went a personal plea from Iran's new Premier, Fazlol-lah Zahedi: "Iran needs immediate financial aid to enable it to emerge from a state of economic chaos." Back went the President's reply: "We stand ready to assist you." Early one night last week, U.S. Ambassador Loy Henderson trudged the stairs to the third floor of Iran's rambling Foreign Office, where Premier Zahedi and his Cabinet awaited him, to keep his Government's promise. He handed over a second letter from Ike, which tendered $45 million in emergency aid to Iran...
...Hambletonian (after whom the race is named) in turn was sired by Abdallah I, an evil-tempered individualist who, after siring hundreds of foal's, wound up at 31 hitched to a fish peddler's wagon. After venerefully kicking the wagon to pieces, proud old Abdal lah spent the final months of his life roaming wild on a Brooklyn beach. Too weak to forage for food, he took refuge from oncoming winter in a deserted shanty, starved to death standing up, leaning against the shanty's wall, legs mired in knee-deep...
...some 50 men took off their shoes, stepped reverently on to white sheets and prostrated themselves toward Mecca (compass bearing from Toledo: 100° true), chanting, "Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar" (God the Almighty). Blackrobed imams read from the Koran and repeated with the faithful, "La Ilaha Illal-Lah" (There is no God but God). The second annual convention of the International Moslem Society, with some 500 Moslems gathered from 45 states and five Canadian provinces, was under...