Word: middleman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...onto a very good wire service, the New York Times service, and with that as its main strongpoint, has more or less given up being a newspaper at all. It runs entertainment features like puzzles and comics, a small amount of local news and sports, and acts as the middleman for the Times service and the Boston reading public...
...Middleman. A man in the middle is exiled Prince Souvanna Phouma, a supple but basically pro-Western politician who Russia loudly insists is still the "legitimate" Premier of Laos (ignoring the fact that he too was brought to power by a coup last August...
...more tangible form in Sumerian writings as a city on an island three days' sail down the Persian Gulf. Merchants from Ur traded there, and clay-written records tell that they brought woolen goods, returning with cargoes of copper, ivory and gold. This suggests that Dilmun acted as middleman between Mesopotamia and the civilization of the Indus Valley in Pakistan. In both places have been found a few peculiar, disk-shaped stone seals. Since most Mesopotamian seals are cylindrical and Indus seals are square, archaeologists have long speculated that the disk-shaped seals were made in Dilmun...