Word: nile
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...great, silent library after midnight, Norman poured himself some straight shots of whisky while his wife slept in her bedroom. Next morning, weary from months of overwork, heavy-eyed from an almost sleepless night, Norman left home without waking his wife, walked slowly to the eight-story Nile View apartment building near by. Moments after he entered the building, he appeared on the roof-a tall, handsome man with greying hair. While passers-by stopped to watch in horror and some screamed. "Beware, khawaga [foreigner]," Norman removed his watch and sunglasses, laid them on the parapet. Turning his back...
...took only one Egyptian stall last week for Secretary of State Dulles to point to Egypt's "tendency to drag its feet." The U.S. was shifting its pressure from Israel to the dictator by the Nile...
...final clearance of the canal and negotiate an acceptable contract for its operation? Gamal Abdel Nasser is a man who once aroused universal admiration, then widespread concern. His brief career has now reached a fateful turning. For a new estimate of the 39-year-old dictator of the Nile, see FOREIGN NEWS, Nasser: The Other...
...Egypt must have arms to defend itself, and the U.S. refused to provide them. It was just a commercial transaction, he said. Wary now, but still hopeful, the U.S. made a counterbid for Nasser's favor, offered to help build the $1.3 billion high dam on the upper Nile at Aswan...
...Price's team developed an ingenious technique against B viruses. First they inoculate the human subject with the well-proved yellow-fever vaccine. About four months later they give a shot of live West Nile virus-which infects millions in the Near East, causes distressing fevers but is usually no threat to life. After the yellow-fever shot, the subject throws off the West Nile infection readily-and in the process his system develops antibodies against it. Some months later (Dr. Price is still not sure what is the best interval), he gets a third shot, this...