Word: palme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last, British military commanders ordered ground and aerial fire against the rebel stronghold of Firq, believed to be held by the Imam's brother, an ambitious scalawag named Talib bin Ali. British commanders also ordered bombing missions against the presumed stronghold of the Imam himself, a palm-ringed, fortified village called Nizwa, ten miles from Firq...
Blue Bell Promises. The camp is a group of 36 prefabricated cabins and a dozen large green tents built inside a barricade of dry reeds. Their sole amenity: a withered palm tree transplanted from an oasis 60 miles away. Only a few of the cabins are air-conditioned-and they are reserved for those men who have the hardest work, be they French or Moslem. One of the huts is a bar where the men guzzle fruit juices, mineral water and beer to compensate for sweat (about 2½ gal. per man per day) lost at work. Elaborate meals worthy...
Once upon a time, in the palm-fringed squares of Zanzibar, off Africa's east coast, where Arabs gather each evening to chat over tiny cups of syrupy black coffee, the talk was all of pleasant things, of rich crops of clove and cinnamon, of the fleets of slant-sailed dhows which each January drifted over to the island on the northeast winds and in April, when the winds changed, drifted back, heavy-laden, toward India and the Arabian coast. Zanzibar, in the words of one of its political leaders, was "a happy island"-its climate fine, its people...
...racial prejudice. But the war in Indo-China already belongs to another age, and in the once-prized colony, only a few French linger today. Corporal Riesen barely had time to write his book and to enjoy the fruits of his Croix de la V ail lance Vietnamienne, with palm, before he was sent off to crumbling Algeria. There, last December, his devotion to La Patrie led him to death in an Arab ambush...
...Queens. On the surface the 70-acre, pine-and-palm-dotted campus, overlooking the Mediterranean, seems as placidly calm as a New England college. Sturdy, ivy-covered buildings, bearing the names of the university's pioneers and benefactors-Dodge, Post, Jesup, West-are flanked by the gleaming modern new engineering building and library. Though the university is largely supported by U.S. oil-company donations and grants from the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations, plus $1,000,000 a year from the U.S. Government for scholarships, it is so scrupulous of its impartiality that it gives only one course in American...