Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...advanced to $186 million a year, and exports in the past decade have quadrupled to $1.3 billion. In the past 18 months, Iran has signed long-term trade and military deals with both East and West involving nearly $3 billion; the latest provides for the exchange of Iranian oil for $40 million worth of Rumanian grain silos and railroad cars. The gross national product has doubled in a decade to $6.5 billion a year...
...opted to maintain the country's ties with France, thus defeating a move to independence. Somali tribesmen, who wanted to break away from France, threw up barricades of sidewalk slabs and bedposts, began hurling rocks with the aid of crude slingshots. As their husbands lit oil fires that flashed over the nearby desert sands, statuesque Somali women contorted their faces into snarls at French troops...
After a torturous half-hour, Fuenzalida nosed up through the buffeting winds and started back for Punta Arenas. Over the Strait of Magellan, the oil pressure in the right engine dropped to zero, forcing Fuenzalida to turn it off. The Piper lost altitude gradually, just made the runway. Sayle headed straight for the nearest wirephoto machine in Santiago, and next morning the Times splashed its scoop on the front page along with Sayle's pictures. Wrote Sayle: "The sight of Gipsy Moth plowing bravely through the wilderness of rain and sea was well worth...
...substandard shipboard farce that Chaplin wrote, directed and briefly appears in, Countess presents Marlon Brando as a U.S. diplomat with a fortune in oil, and Sophia Loren as a White Russian prostitute with a heart of gold. They meet in Hong Kong, and when his ship sails she stows away in his stateroom. For the rest of the show the principals spiel some of the most hilariously awful dialogue the screen has presented since sound tracks replaced title cards. Items: "Common harlot! Are you trying to ruin my career?" "You won't believe me when I tell you that...
...slipped fugitives out of Europe after the war. One who did not go far was Erich Rajakowitsch, who in 1942 headed Eichmann's Section IV B4 ("death transports") in Holland: Wiesenthal finally found "Raja" in Italy, where he was heading a firm that traded profitably in oil pipelines and engines with the East bloc. Sentenced in Vienna to 2½ years, Raja was quietly released six months later...