Word: reckonings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your comment on the order of the Ten Commandments [April 22] mentions everybody's listing but what should be the most authoritative. How do the Jews count, reckon or list the Ten Commandments...
Moroccan nationalists base their claim on the fact that 900 years ago the famed Almoravide Dynasty, from which they reckon descent, ruled all of northwest Africa from the Strait of Gibraltar (its Moorish legions settled in Seville) to dark Senegal and the swamps of the Niger. The new kingdom of Morocco occupies about a fifth of this old Almoravide empire. The remainder of the area is divided between Spain's Rio de Oro, a corner of Algeria, the huge French West African province of Mauritania, and a chunk of the French Sudan reaching a few hundred miles north...
Hardest campaigner of all was Pibulsonggram himself. An ardent admirer of U.S. political methods, the 59-year-old Premier zipped about the country in his green Thunderbird, handing out boxes of "Pibul matches" and replicas of his personal Buddha charm. Since Pibul's countrymen reckon that any man who has survived one kidnaping, two attempted assassinations by snooting and one by poisoning must have supernatural luck, the charm went over...
Whenever men get together to build a united Europe, they must first reckon with that great spoiler of dreams, the French National Assembly. Last week the Assembly debated the bold plan for a Common Market (TIME, Jan. 28) that would give six Western European nations a tariff-free trading area nearly as big as the U.S. Premier Guy Mollet, so optimis tic at first, was shaken and depressed. Former Premier Pierre Mendès-France, playing shrewdly on France's century-old fear of German domination, had belabored the proposal in language and innuendo all but identical to that...
...whose love for headlines is exceeded only by its awe of seniority, the new boy from Ohio was focusing attention on himself. Not only were gallery eyes during opening session fixed on stonefaced, wavy-haired Frank Lausche, but the Senate's majority and minority leaders both had to reckon with his presence...