Word: nil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speech informing the people of Iran that the court is against him. Caught unprepared, Ala could only stutter his remonstrances: but-but really, the Shah, whatever his private misgivings, had publicly backed Mossadegh's every move, and the Queen Mother's influence on politics was almost nil...
...Murder is a pretty stupid affair," Dr. Ford claims. "The chances that a murderer won't drop as much as a flake of dandruff near his victim, nor be seen by any witnesses are nil...
Egyptian suffragettes led by Doria Chafik, president of the Bent el-Nil Feminist Union, marched on Cairo's parliament house last week demanding votes for Egyptian women. Gaining the office of Senate President Aly Zaki el-Orabi Pasha, Madame Chafik found it empty, picked up the telephone, called Orabi Pasha, who was ill at his home. Said she: "I am speaking from your own office. A thousand women are outside demanding their political rights...
...nice things about coaching football at the United States Military Academy these days is that the prospects of losing a speedy halfback to the draft are nil. In addition, the Spartan life at West Point makes the problem of conditioning a relatively minor one, and exceptional schoolboy athletes who aspire to become officers and gentlemen often...
...acting is uniformly poor, Clift's contribution is virtually nil, and Douglas', though he gets off a few good ones for such a sleepy guy, is negligible. Altogether, the audience is easily as exultant at the finish of "The Big Lift" as the combined reactions of all the men who played the original performance...