Word: move
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chance to strike came on the night of last July 13. Kassem's 19th and Aref's 20th brigades received orders to move through Baghdad on their way to friendly Jordan, then beset by fear of revolt within its own borders. Following Kassem's plan, Aref's men instead rolled into Baghdad at 4:30 a.m., seized the radio station, pulled all switches at the telephone exchange, and, lobbing a mortar shell through a back wall of the royal palace, mowed down the King and members of the royal household as they stumbled in confusion...
...achieved in statehood, called the commonwealth relationship "a sloppy and ridiculous rag doll." The Statehood Party (24% of the vote in the last election) took new hope. But the architect of commonwealth, Governor Luis Muñoz Marin (TIME cover, June 23), coolly got going on a plan to move Puerto Rico toward greater autonomy under the U.S. flag...
...strength came from a new move into the old blue-chip favorites by big investors who were sitting on the sidelines waiting for the big board to settle down. Buyers rallied to International Business Machines after President Thomas J. Watson announced a 3-for-2 split and an increased dividend; they bid for Ford after Ford Foundation successfully sold an additional 2,000,000 shares of Ford common without trouble. At the same time, such speculative favorites as General Development and Universal Controls (TIME, March 30) ran into waves of selling, were sporadically held off the market when trading volume...
...Conceived by Architect Eero Saarinen, the lounge is a 15-ft.-by- 60.-ft. truck with upholstered seats; passengers climb aboard to wait until the plane is ready, are then hauled out to the ramp, where the lounge fastens to the plane's entrance door. Nobody has to move a muscle, though it could be dull...
However, like forwards in hockey, the midfielders move up and down the field constantly, and depth is needed in the position. Lentz does not have depth now, and the team may be in for some rough games till the rookies develop...