Word: move
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Western Lebanon, newspapers were quick to praise the unity move. In Jordan, where rabidly Arab-nationalist Palestinians comprise two-thirds of the population, wily Strongman Samir Rifai publicly proclaimed: "We support every effort to achieve this sort of union," then dashed for Saudi Arabia to urge King Saud to meet with Jordan's King Hussein and Iraq's King Feisal to form a counter-federation of the three kingdoms. Feisal was willing, but Saud...
...Russians were not happy about the move, and reportedly let the Syrians know that if their state was swallowed up, the promised Soviet aid program was off. Washington was also concerned at possible effects on the delicate balance in the Middle East. If Nasser had hoped to turn the Middle East's eyes from the Baghdad Pact meeting, he had dramatically succeeded...
Dancing Dervishes. Just when the mob seemed ready to disperse, a British officer chose to order a soldier-driver to move his Land Rover out of the jammed street. The soldier stepped on the foot throttle, knocking people down right and left, and bouncing his heavy vehicle over the bodies of an old man and woman. Howling with rage, the crowd broke through the police lines and overturned Land Rovers and trucks. At a Ford agency garage near the Mosque of the Dancing Dervishes, flaming gasoline-soaked rags were flung among the brand-new cars, and soon the building rocked...
...doesn't get out of hand." The hand is Lawyer Banda's, fluttering excitedly out of his white robes as he says: "If we have peace in the world for the next 25 years, then I feel reasonably confident that the world will become stabilized. Communism will move to the right, capitalism will move to the left and most of the world will be in the center-what we call democratic socialism." His friends in the West would feel more reassured if he had a more realistic view of the Communists as they are today...
Only the exact timing of Diefenbaker's move came as a surprise. The 23rd Parliament was assured a short life when the voters last June failed to give any party a ruling majority; Diefenbaker's Tories were merely the largest bloc with 113 of the House of Commons' 265 seats. But Diefenbaker had skillfully steered the legislation to put into effect most of his campaign promises, e.g., expanded social security benefits, bigger cash payments to farmers, more revenues to the provinces...