Word: longer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your direct reply to the men in revolt against national sovereignty in Algiers has aggravated the sickness that already weighed on the nation . . . It is no longer a question of that national excitement and of that surge of brotherhood which once moved you. It is a rebellion against the institutions and laws that France has freely given herself...
...cities. The Kabyles' history is old and militant: under King Jugurtha, they held off the might of ancient Rome for five bloody years; they battled the Arab and Turkish invaders of North Africa; led by a "Joan of Arc" called Lalla Fatma, they fought the conquering French longer than any other tribe in Algeria. Kabyles in the tens of thousands served in the French army in both world wars, and their fighters are considered the most spirited of the rebel troops...
...altitude, and within a minute or so was asking: "Ready to try it again?" Down we dived and up into another pullout. Up went the g needle. I felt a crushing force, and then the ineffable relief of subgravity and the euphoria of zero gravity. This time it lasted longer. Again I toyed with the stringless yoyo, so delightedly that I did not notice when we began to slow down. By inertial force, the sinker glided forward from my upraised left hand. My grab for it was defeated by the shoulder harness. Over the hot mike I warned Brett: "There...
...exit, did it again last week. After her closing performance in Bellini's Il Pirata, she stalked out of Milan's La Scala-for good, she said-and probably out of Italian opera as well. "I leave La Scala with deep pain," she said. "It is no longer compatible with my dignity as a woman and an artist...
...Bliss Chair in Latin American History was endowed so long ago, Gilmore said, that it no longer supports the full cost of a professor. Gilmore stated that the money will be used for the guest lecturer next spring, if he is secured, or will be kept to help endow the post when a new man is found...