Word: owned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost from the start, the Syrians had had second thoughts about their impulsive merger. The job of whipping Syria into line was given to Interior Minister Abdel Hamid Serraj a ruthless local strongman who had wholeheartedly committed himself to Nasser. Serraj clapped hundreds of Communists into jail, tortured "recantations" out...
Surrounded by Defense Minister Rodion Malinovsky and other smiling brass, Nikita Khrushchev proposed a toast to the Red army as "the only army that voted for its own liquidation." Since it was such a jolly occasion, he obviously meant his own disarmament proposals, and was not calling up the evil...
"Panama, Like Egypt . . ." The Panamanian who has symbolized the discontent and would like to capitalize on it politically is Aquilino Boyd, 38, a handsome lawyer from a Panamanian "best" family, who would like to be elected President next year. For months, Boyd has been whipping up feeling. "Panama, like Egypt...
Birrell was outraged about the U.S. effort to bring him home. "Some American authorities will try to get Brazilians to violate their own constitution and laws. Just to get at me. That's not diplomatic. Some day, I'll go back home. I certainly won't let...
No better are the sentimental exchanges between Dr. Cornish and the young woman he loves. As his own director, Playwright Schary has only stressed what seems wooden or hammy. In neither capacity is he aware that there is an art to preaching, or that those who plead a cause should...