Word: libya
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tektites be meteorites that moved on orbits in the solar system, says Kohman. The fragments of single stony meteorites could not cover large areas of the earth's surface, such as the tektite patches splattered over big parts of Texas, Libya and Australia. And it is easy to show, he says, that if they belonged to a loose swarm of small objects in the solar system (e.g., disrupted comets), the gravitational pulls of the sun and its planets would have spread them wider than the diameter of the earth. So they could not fall in any kind of patch...
...lowered their eyes in shame. Many who thought Anthony Eden's war on Nasser a senseless, immoral act regarded last week's moves, even if dangerous, as legal and justified. At week's end the British also landed a 400-man Royal Marine commando at Tobruk, Libya, near Egypt's western border...
...alive or dead, he declares that "the only love I can have is for my country." A good part of that love seems really to be a longing for adventure, which the Moslem moujahid shares with the swaggering paratroopers of France. As we flew over the sandy wastes of Libya, Krim gestured at the comfortable interior of the plane, pointed deprecatingly to his grey European suit and shrugged: "I don't like this luxury. What I really like is being out in the mountains. You know, I can march all night, sleep in rain or snow, then fight...
...highest temperature recorded under standard conditions (i.e., in sheltered and ventilated locations): 136.4° F. at Azizia, Libya, on Sept...
Full House. For nearly twelve hours Host Nkrumah shuttled back and forth between his Christiansborg Castle* and Accra's flag-draped airport to welcome delegates. As cannons boomed, planes disgorged the Foreign Ministers of Libya, Tunisia and the Sudan. Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie sent his third son, Prince Sahle Selassie. The United Arab Federation's Foreign Minister, Mahmoud Fawzi, deplaned explaining that only ''very pressing and unforeseen circumstances" (i.e., an imminent trip to Moscow) prevented President Nasser himself from coming...