Word: lined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...police refused to let any of Inonu's supporters into the railway station. When he tried to speak from the train to a crowd of Republicans at Eskisehir, a city of 125,000, engine whistles blasted throughout his speech, and a freight train was backed onto the main line between Inonu and the crowd...
...when he launched a campaign against the French settlers who raided villages for the laborers they needed and then, at harvest's end, paid each victim barely enough to get home again. When the French tried to gather evidence against Houphouet, who was then following the Communist line, they found not a single African who would inform. The French soon gave up the chase-having made a conquest. After throwing off his Communist ties. Houphouet popped up in Paris, became French West Africa's leading champion of cooperation with France. Paris poured money into the Ivory Coast...
...clear Red sky a Soviet translator named Victor Louis dropped a casual line to Musicomedy Authors Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe to inform them that an unauthorized version of their long-running My Fair Lady, its book translated by Louis, will be staged in two Russian cities next season. Despite the fact that they stand to collect no royalties on the Russian production, Louis brassily requested Lerner and Loewe to forward a complete orchestral score for the hit. So incensed that they could have danced all night with rage, the pair promptly appealed to the State Department, the Soviet...
...modern adherents preserve the ancient Coptic language in their ritual, proudly point to the art and architecture of their monasteries and churches and to their long line of theologians and ascetics. To that line belongs the new 56-year-old Patriarch, who spent five years in the desert as a solitary monk, then, in 1936, rented an abandoned mill in Cairo (for 3? a month), fitted it with a homemade altar and started preaching. His reputation as a holy man grew, and eventually the faithful built him a small church...
...Next in line for possible rehabilitation: Hugo's Hunchback of Notre Dame and Dumas' The Three Musketeers...