Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of his officers begged Shishekly to go back to being a strongman, but he had taken a calculated gamble: if Syria could ride out the crisis without returning to police-state methods, democracy would be on its way. While Shishekly lingered and hoped, the opposition prepared. In June the ousted politicos - extreme right-wing ers, moderates, left Socialists, and the old Druze chieftain, Sultan Pasha el Atrash - met secretly, organized the Popular Bloc, and agreed to bury their hatchet -in Shishekly's back. Still Shishekly did nothing. Three weeks ago, emboldened, the Popular Bloc plotted the final...
Cheered by such reports, the stock market went right on climbing. The Dow-Jones industrials average tacked on another 2.74 points to reach 292.39, within a whisker of the peak reached at the start of 1953. Some saucerites felt that the ride up the far slope of the saucer had already begun...
...Next day the three castaways thumbed a ride in a passing launch (full of tourists) and were taken to Butiaba, on the shore of Lake Albert. The Hemingways climbed into another plane-which not only crashed but burned on the takeoff. Again they escaped serious harm: Hemingway got out with a cut head, his wife with two cracked ribs. This week, after cautious traveling by automobile, they settled down for a bit of rest in the town of Entebbe, in Uganda. "I feel wonderful," cried Hemingway, clutching a stalk of bananas and a bottle of gin. "I think [my luck...
Soon after he came to the U.S. from Spain in 1924, Painter Julio de Diego found himself with exactly 25^ to his name. He paid a dime for a ride to the top of the Woolworth Building (then the world's tallest), and gaily flung the other 15^ over Manhattan's skyline. Says De Diego: "I wanted to start from scratch...
Valor & Cowardice. Angelo continues his ride to Italy convinced that the conduct of the intrepid doctor is the best answer to this question. For everywhere he goes, most men & women are responding to the threat of death with be havior that is a degradation of the hu man spirit. The rich are fleeing the plague in expensive carriages, bribing quarantine officials to let them through. The middle class are incapable of fleeing because they are weighed down by stuffed furniture and bric-a-brac. The poor are working themselves into a state of hysteria by spreading and believing bloodcurdling...