Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Imam of Yemen failed to inspire one of Edward Lear's famous limericks, it was only because Lear never heard of him. To this day little is known about this Moslem kingdom, the size of Nebraska, at the southern tip of the Arabian peninsula. That is the way Yemen's despotic ruler, the Imam Saif el Islam Ahmed, wants it. He bars foreigners and does everything he can to keep out of print. But last week there was print without stint: there had been a revolt against the Imam of Yemen. Tough Iraq-trained Colonel Ahmed Thalaya, mindful...
...child, Hashim played on the courts at the officers' club in Peshawar, and by the time he was ten, he was neglecting school and spending lunch money for court fees. Soon he was the best pro in the Indian peninsula, and four years ago modest Hashim Khan was persuaded to compete in England. The Royal Pakistan Air Force put up the money. In 1951 he won all of Britain's major tournaments, and (except for one default) he has won them every year since...
North America's only known deposits of tin in commercial quantities are on Alaska's Seward Peninsula. Looking for a domestic tin source, the U.S. has laid out $2,894,576 in loans and loan guarantees to develop the low-grade (.4%) ore of the Lost River mine, 40 miles east of Siberia. Last week the Joint Congressional Committee on Defense Production, headed by Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart, issued a chilly report indicating that the U.S. was taken in by some cool customers...
...expedition from the University of Pennsylvania found a big village of the shadowy Dorset people on bleak Melville Peninsula. The 208 rectangular houses, some of them 40 ft. long, are arranged in parallel rows for about a mile along the shore. The walls and roofs are gone, but the depressed floors remain. From under the dirt came nearly 3,000 tools, weapons and art objects. The Dorset people apparently had no boats, but they did have sledges which must have been pulled by humans, rather than dogs, because the Dorset dogs were too small for mushing...
...Last Time I Saw Paris is so phoney it hurts. In its return to the Continent from campaigns on the Italian peninsula Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has settled on a rework of the stock script about war-weary American youth in Europe. Ostensibly patterned after a Scott Fitzgerald novel, it somehow misplaces World War I and ends up occurring in 1945. Otherwise, it is Hollywood's latest testimonial to its own mixed up conception of gay, reckless Paris...