Word: notting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"It's not tidy, it's an administrative nightmare," said the director. "But it works." The Colombo Plan, with a tiny staff of clerks, is a kind of clearing house for economic relations between 15 "recipient" nations of Southeast Asia and six "donor" nations-the U.S., Britain Canada...
Mahmud knew that he must pay for his crime. He rose in his prison cell at 3:30 on the morning of the day he was to be hanged. He made his religious ablutions by washing his arms, face and the insteps of his feet, prayed with the prison mullah...
Mahmud thanked his well-wishers and reassured them: "Just now, I did not feel the touch of death. I am filled with calmness. I am traveling to eternity in peace." He submitted once more to the noose. This time the rope held, and Mahmud went to death dancing on air...
Work v. Tears. Despite the influx, the vast Amazon has only a sprinkling of people. The League of Nations once reckoned that the basin could support 900 million people, but only a scant 4,000,000 occupy the area, two-thirds of them caboclos, who live in huts, fish and...
After a month in Moscow, Georgia-born Author Erskine (God's Little Acre) Caldwell, 55, returned to the U.S. little richer but far wiser about the Soviets' fast way with a ruble. As one of the U.S.S.R.'s most popular U.S. writers (others: Mark Twain, Jack London...