Word: mende
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Citroën (license No. 225) was featured on so many French police posters that it became famous throughout Tunisia. The French caught him in 1952, jailed him for two years, released him just in time to assist Bourguiba in the 1954 independence negotiations with French Prime Minister Pierre Mendès-France. He became Bourguiba's first Minister of the Interior, worked hard to prepare Tunisia for full independence. When it was granted on March 20, 1956, Bourguiba named Slim Ambassador to the U.S. and Canada and permanent delegate to the United Nations...
...mend a fence allegedly destroyed by the Redcoats in 1778, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Selwyn Lloyd forwarded a check for $18 to the rector of Philadelphia's St. Peter's Episcopal Church. In response to the Rev. Joseph Koci Jr.'s tongue-in-cheek demand for some $760,000 in damages and compound interest, Lloyd legalistically pointed out that since Revolutionary War treaty conventions exempted Britain from further financial responsibility toward her unruly erstwhile American colonies, the St. Pe ter's claim should properly be addressed to "the federal government of the United...
...while last week, the most important instrument of Government was the thermometer that measured the ups and downs of presidential temperature. Even as the nation's most celebrated backache seemed on the mend, John Fitzgerald Kennedy came down with what the White House physician, Dr. Janet Travell, described as a "mixed bacterial and viral infection...
About once a month, Goldwater heads back home to mend a few Arizona fences and supervise the finishing touches on his dazzling new $100,000 home in Scottsdale. Tailored to the Senator's taste for gadgetry, the home boasts, among other frills, a darkroom, and a radio set that tunes him in to the Phoenix airport control tower...
...infection that this year hit New York (other big U.S. cities have their own brands): it is far worse than a cold, but not quite bad enough to make busy people stay long in bed; it deceptively lets up so that even medically expert victims think themselves on the mend, but then it strikes again...