Word: rugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Sir Hugh laid wreaths and visited museums, some other travelers inconspicuously departed from Haiti. Senator Marcel Hérard, a political foe of Magloire, who had eluded arrest three weeks earlier by having himself smuggled into the Mexican embassy rolled up in a rug, received a safe-conduct from the President and flew off to Mexico. Three lesser oppositionists, like Hérard charged with plotting to overthrow the government, left the Panamanian embassy and headed for Cuba. But 25 others, caught by the cops, still languished in jail...
Last week the dictator callously pulled the rug out from under his apologists. Four new Trujillo laws went into effect, aimed squarely at the two U.S. sugar companies-the West Indies Sugar Corp. and the South Porto Rico Sugar Co.-which grow and mill 70% of the country's sugar. One of the new laws empowers Trujillo's sanitary inspectors to fine the companies and shut down their mills for health-code infractions; another requires the companies to pay production taxes on their full sugar quotas whether the mills are running or not. Two other laws levy...
...Schweitzer asked the man, "what do you see?" But the patient shouted to the interpreter: "Why does he ask me what I see? He made the operation. He should know!" And she tells of Dr. Schweitzer's menagerie of pet animals, and how he always keeps a rug thrown over the organ-style pedals of his piano so that his baby antelopes will not break their legs...
...Turkey last summer-went on sale in Manhattan and Los Angeles. Priced from $14.95 to $65, her 1954 line of winter resort clothes includes simple but smartly styled bathing suits, jackets, blouses and dresses decorated with tar-booshed figures and such Turkish zigzags as designs copied from the ceremonial rug of a Turkish emir and from wrought-iron grillwork that she spotted in Istanbul...
...show the Communists' "gratitude," Chambers once gave Oriental rugs to White and three other participants in his espionage ring. Some years later, a member of a different spy apparatus, with whom White was working, saw the rug and said: "Why that looks like one of those Soviet rugs." While White shifted nervously, there was an embarrassed silence. The next time the associate visited White, the rug had disappeared...