Word: refurbish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sacred Black Stone and walk the ritual seven times around the Kaaba. Once thousands died of sunstroke or disease, and local Arabs fleeced them of their last pennies. Saud established first-aid stations, erected sun shelters, built a $3,000,000 quarantine station at Jiddah, allocated $132 million to refurbish the Great Mosque, straighten Mecca's streets, expand its accommodations. The pilgrim's head tax (among the chief pre-oil sources of Saudi income) has been abolished. Says Saud: "Let the pilgrim come. I'll pay the tax. Allah has given me the money from...
...Eisenhower insistence on more young faces and fresh voices in the party councils. As a man whose political ideal is Teddy Roosevelt, Hall knows well what the boss wants -and knows that the years remaining with Ike in the presidency are all the time the party may have to refurbish itself...
...Dropped a Gómez scheme to write a totalitarian constitution, and named Liberals as well as Conservatives to a commission which will refurbish the present...
...Westminster Abbey. Restoring ancient figures is Howgrave-Graham's hobby. Since his apprenticeship in the '20s, when a clock jack (a clock-striking figure) in Southwold Church hit him on the head with its hammer, he has developed great skill. Yes, said Howgrave-Graham, he could refurbish the figures...
...cabin to symbolize Millionaire Oilman Kerr's humble beginnings. When they discovered the cabin would cost $25,000, they settled for a papier-mache model worth $600. A "Kids for Kefauver" club scavenged the International Amphitheater to collect hundreds of old Taft signs, set to work to refurbish the sticks with Kefauver signs...