Word: masters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early 1950s he granted a British-run subsidiary of the Iraq Petroleum Co. a concession to drill for oil in the Omani hinterland. But he was not quite master in his own house. The fanatic Ibadhis in the hills, resentful of the Sultanate rule, had long ago elected a new dynasty of Imams and in 1920, after decades of hard fighting had won from the then Sultan a grudging acknowledgment of the Imam's rule in the mountains. So when two years ago the Sultan's foreign oil drillers went to work near the northern border, the Imam...
JULES VERNE: MASTER OF SCIENCE FICTION (236 pp.)-Edited by I. O. Evans-Rinehart...
...Americans. This slim but meaty volume constitutes the first valid survey of the question of bias in our country's newspapers. (Its author, now a copy editor on the Boston evening Traveler, was formerly sports editor of the Harvard Crimson, graduated from the College in 1943, and took a master's degree from the Harvard Business School...
Shaw's proverbial wit is abundantly manifest. At one point the self-styled "greatest living master of letters" exclaims, "All I ask is to have my own way in everything." And after an ovation at a play, he said, "My impulse was to rise and bless them. I often feel like the Pope...
...jour nals is the sophisticated corporal's many-sided marital problem. By her fifth month of pregnancy, Ilouhi is obliged, under the strict tribal law, to find her husband a second wife. Rene protests the bigamy: "To carry out my mission would I have to become . . . lord and master of a harem?" But Ilouhi finds him Crey the Bahnar huntress, a wild creature from the inner jungle. With the appearance of Crey, Riesen is surprised to discover in the de voted Ilouhi "that boundless distress which is as old as the world itself." A new relationship develops in which...