Word: numbered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this hostile environment De Gaulle made no public appearances. Instead, he spent two days consulting with local dignitaries-including a number of Moslems, whose names were kept secret to protect them from rebel reprisals. Then, bone tired, he canceled plans for a tour of the Algerian interior and set off for Paris. On the day of his departure his recorded voice boomed out over Radio Algiers, promising neither the right to independence to Algerian Arabs nor the prospect of "integration" with France to the French Algerian colons. A yes vote on his constitution, declared De Gaulle, "will mean...
...will probably become as indifferent as the old. Typical apathetic fan: President Eisenhower. Said he in his press conference last week: "If the American League club here had a fighting chance, on the average, of getting into the first division, I, for one, would be down at a good number of their evening games to see them. If we could only have that. I am practically certain this city would demand that they stay here, and I think they should. But I think they should have a little bit better club...
...magazines Scientific American and Interior Design, two radio stations, the Great Northern Paper Co. The Trib purchase was no surprise. A year ago, Jock Whitney lent the Reids $1,200,000 with an option to convert the loan to stock. By the conversion, and the purchase of an unspecified number of additional shares, Whitney got control of the Trib and its money-making European edition. The Reids retain a "substantial interest...
...elders divided the watches of the night. How do we know that the number of night watches was an uneven one? Answer: Judges 7: 19 refers to "the middle watch...
...American Tobacco's Hit Parade brand, whose tissue-paper-like filter absorbs more moisture than competing cellulose acetate filters. Hit Parade also claims "over 400,000 filter traps"; Lorillard says it could claim millions of traps for its fast-rising Kent but does not, holding that the number of traps means nothing...