Word: return
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grievances (bucket toilets, young prisoners mixed with older men, a hated state parole commissioner). "It's tighter than hell," he said. "They're shook." Once he went back, as he had promised, to sit under the jugs; on the second trip Warden Powell refused his pleas to return...
Stalemate. Behind much of the barbarism lies the ever-increasing desperation of both sides. Almost a year after Charles de Gaulle's return to power, a political solution in Algeria seems as far away as ever. In an effort to break the rebel hold over Algeria's Moslems, the French army has resettled more than a million of them in centralized, heavily guarded villages-a practice that Paul Delouvrier, De Gaulle's Delegate General in Algeria, last week ordered discontinued because "it might cause deterioration of the economic and psychological climate." But the casualties continue; there were...
...concern" for his friend, the Dalai Lama, "who has been abducted by the rebellious elements." Red China's Premier Chou En-lai unctuously declared that "although the Dalai Lama has been abducted to India by the rebels, we still hope he will be able to free himself and return to the motherland...
...three short months the pretty, blue-eyed servant girl had found friends, a good job, and happiness under Austrian freedom. But last week 19-year-old Smilja Srca was ordered by the Austrian government to return to Yugoslavia. Leaving her mistress a thank-you note in a language the lady could not read, Smilja told the family children goodbye, crept out into the Alpine night and put a bullet through her head. She survived, but the bullet destroyed the optic nerve connections of both eyes, and she will never see again...
Native's Return. Abdullah Tariki, chief of the Saudi office of Petroleum and Mineral Affairs, is the unquestioned spokesman of the new generation of ambitious Arab experts in oil. "Absolutely incorruptible," say U.S. oilmen, who quiver at some of Tariki's ideas. "The only Arab who knows anything about the oil business...