Word: rying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which by last week blossomed into a full-scale ideological struggle, with Ben Bella backed by Egypt's Nasser and a host of black African nations. Dramatizing its case against Morocco's supposedly "feudal" and "imperialist" regime, Algeria broadcast a parody of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince, with Hassan in the title role and a supporting cast of Uncle Sam, King Farouk and David Ben-Gurion...
...earls of Home were imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle for political crimes. Three others were beheaded. One mer ry laird of Home, says the 14th Earl, used to invite his neighbors to dinner and, "having wined them and dined them until they were under the table, would then proceed to acquire their property. Then he would hang them by the neck to a tree outside the bedroom window to remind himself of, as he used to say, 'the danger of overindulgence.' " Home adds: "The English always say that we Scots retarded the advance of civilization. If we had known...
...Light Hand. Like many a success ful publisher, gangling, Dakota-born Phil Graham never covered a news sto ry. A lawyer by training and a wheeler-dealer by instinct, he started at the top of his adopted profession. In 1940 he married Katharine Meyer, 22, news-minded daughter of the liberal Post's multimillionaire publisher. At war's end he joined the paper as associate pub lisher; within six months he took over from Father-in-Law Eugene Meyer...
...epitome of the non-sequitur gag, the elephant joke is the shaggy dog sto ry's direct descendant. Secretaries giggle over them, teen-agers torture their parents with them, scientists - laughing - regard them as an escape from an overlogical and overmechanical world...
...athletic and was terrified at being driven into something where I would be ridiculed. I remember paying a boy twenty-five cents to teach me to kick a football. It didn't work. When the girls took over, I fit in better. I was caught up in the lit-ry aspects of things. I helped found a journal, became interested in writing...