Word: old
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ordered a Communist go-slow in Iraq, in the hope of gains elsewhere, or perhaps because the Communists are not strong enough at the moment to challenge Kassem, Iraq was treated last week to the spectacle of militant Communists in retreat, beating their breasts and confessing their sins in old-style Stalinist selfcriticism. In an emergency session, proclaimed the party newspaper Ittihad al Shaab, the "enlarged" Communist Central Committee had condemned "individual leaders" for their "criminal acts, emotionalism and miscalculation...
...grew up in Norway's far north, wandered as a hobo through Illinois and the Dakotas of the '80s, and buried himself in a remote corner of Norway to write novels (Growth of the Soil, Pan, Hunger) of great depth and power. Then, old and full of honors, including the 1920 Nobel Prize, Knut Hamsun told his countrymen when the Nazis invaded Norway: "Throw away your rifles. The Germans are fighting for us, and now are crushing England's tyranny over us and all neutrals...
...rest of his days, Norwegians heaped contempt on the old recluse they had once revered as "the giant of the North." Thousands of copies of his famed novels were mailed back to him or dumped on the doorstep of his south coast farmstead. Before he died in 1952, a Norwegian court blocked all the old man's bank accounts, imposed a fine of 425,000 kroner ($86,000), which was later reduced to 325,000 kroner...
...white station wagon, trailed by a dozen Jeeps loaded with gun-slung Arabs and a cavalcade of cars packed with politicians and journalists, Jordan's 23-year-old King Hussein sped westward one day last week from his hot, dusty capital of Amman. On the approach to the Palestinian hills the summer's last harvesters winnowed the wheat by throwing forkfuls in the air as in Old Testament times. As the caravan passed, they chanted in unison: "Welcome, Hussein, welcome, our King." In Nablus, traditional center of opposition to the crown, 4,000 citizens jammed the square...
...with the low level of his prestige during the troubled days of 1958 (when he was more respected abroad than at home), the young King's comeback was spectacular. Ironically, he owes much of his new popularity to the fact that he has established friendlier relations with his old adversary, Gamal Abdel Nasser, who remains the hero of Arab nationalism, even if the enthusiasm of Jordanians for direct union with Egypt has waned. The border between Syria and Jordan, closed for weeks by Nasser's United Arab Republic, was ordered reopened by Cairo, and last week Hussein announced...