Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great-grandson of the Mahdi whose howling hordes overran General "Chinese" Gordon at Khartoum in 1885, Sadik has shown himself to be a man of tolerance. In 1965 he worked closely with Mahgoub in banning the Communist Party because a Sudanese Communist had made a slanderous remark about the wife of the Prophet Mohammed. But within his own Umma Party, the young Mahdi speaks for religious toleration for the south. His chief rival within the Umma is his uncle, Imam Hadi el Mahdi, 47, who advocates a tougher policy toward the rebels and, Sadik believes, wants to establish a Moslem...
...delightful?"a smashing bird," says Director Reisz. She can make away with a bottle of Taittinger between 6 and 8, kick up her heels with the Tijuana Brass, get so interested in what someone is saying that she misses her mouth with her fork, and blurt a delightfully risky remark if it seems to be in order. "My bras have all turned yellow," she groaned to a friend recently. "I expect Nanny has boiled them in urine...
...turned out 14,331,458 copies of Time Inc.'s four major magazines?TIME, LIFE, FORTUNE and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED?and their international editions. * Newspaper obituaries parroted a quote from an unnamed "friend" of Luce: "He is a dreamer, with a keen sense of double-entry bookkeeping." In fact, the remark was used by Harpo Marx to describe Alexander Woollcott...
...here which we are struggling with--a very difficult principle--is how to discharge our responsibilities in the world as a world power and permit people, as I said, "to be let alone." If there is any notion that this can be done (as is apparent from your remark) by isolating yourself from the world community, we went through that experience and the experience we had was disastrous. It led to the tremendous holocaust where not one (I don't know what your figures are and where you got them) where not one million people were killed--if you took...
...faculty member's dilemma is his dual role as citizen and professor. During his interview, when Shenton inveighed against 2-S on the grounds that it is "lunatic" to exempt a man while educating him only to jeopardize him afterwards, he prefixed his remark with, "As a private individual, I think...