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Word: purgee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under a compact that Nabulsi made with Syria, schools in Jordan and Syria now give common degrees, follow common courses, and eventually were to use common textbooks (to be produced by Nasser's professors). The Nabulsi government also initialed an agreement with Syria for a customs and currency union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JORDAN: The Education of a King | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

Middle East (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), explain the new U.S. policy for opposing Middle East Communism, and have signed agreements under the U.S.'s emergency $200 million aid program. Hussein, who last week began a purge of Communist and pro-Egyptian elements from Jordan's army, schools and government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Shifting Alignments | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

The deal by which three Arab nations -Syria, Egypt and Saudi Arabia-undertook to replace Jordan's $36 million-a-year British subsidy was proving largely a desert mirage. Syria's first remittance turned out to be not a check but a cheeky receipt-for "services" provided Jordan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JORDAN: A King's Ordeal | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

Lest his dirge tend to merge with a purge.

Author: By David Royce, | Title: Coaching at Harvard: The Narrow Viewpoint | 1/30/1957 | See Source »

Of course he could never forget the barriers that faced a negro at home; and it made him more tolerant of the Russians, for all their purge trials and liquidations. He said he felt about Communism as Frederick Douglass though of abolition, "Whatever else it might be--it was not...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: Hughes' I Wonder As I Wander: Reveries of an Itinerant Poet | 12/13/1956 | See Source »

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