Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...confused with the plain collie, much larger and of little value as a working...
...ring the bell for Mass. Twice she is said to have saved Assisi from invading armies. In 1234, when the Saracen soldiers of Frederick II scaled the walls of San Damiano by night, Clare confronted them in an open window holding the Sacrament. The soldiers fled. Later a larger force returned and Clare led her sisters in prayer. Suddenly a huge storm arose that scattered the tents of the enemy, who once again fled in panic...
EAST-West trade is steadily growing despite restrictions. New Zealand has quietly signed a deal to sell 500 tons of butter to Russia, and is dickering to ship even larger quantities of meat to Poland. Russian oil has begun to be sold in Italy, France and Argentina, and may soon be flowing in bigger quantities to Greece and half a dozen European countries currently negotiating barter agreements...
...busy working on El Paso Natural Gas Co.'s $180 million pipeline across New Mexico and into Arizona. Along with the usual crews of laborers were two men equipped with some unusual tools-archaeologists' spades, trowels, notebooks, cameras, maps and paper bags. They were part of a larger team of archaeologists who will walk some 1,000 miles of the pipeline's right of way (including spurs in Colorado and Utah), scanning the surface for telltale signs of ancient Indian ruins before the bulldozers go to work. After the digging has started, they will retrace their steps...
...Supreme Soviet in Moscow she was "pleasantly surprised to see so many women in politics," especially the "olive-skinned, slant-eyed, Oriental-looking women with long black braids." As for the Baku oilfields, they are "just terrific." Explained Perle (who inherited an oil fortune.): "They're larger than any I've ever seen in the United States ... It looks as though the oil is flowing freely...