Word: saws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...twelve-hour day, riding with the President, pushing through crowds with him, Bell saw familiar scenes. When the blue peaks of the mountain province came into view, he turned to Magsaysay and said: "Legally, those mountains belong to you, but I'll always have extralegal claim to them because my mother is buried there...
...traveled at about half the speed of the earth (1,000 m.p.h. at the equator), the time span between sunrises was compressed to 16-hr. "sun days," half light, half dark. They caught their first sunset over the Great Lakes, a few hours after their i p.m. takeoff, thereafter saw the sun rise and set at eight-hour intervals, i.e., sunrise over the Atlantic, sunset over Saudi Arabia, sunrise over Malaya, sunset over Guam, sunrise in California. Total: three sunrises, three sunsets in a period just a few hours short of two full normal-sized days...
Resolutely, Britain's Harold Macmillan began to turn his countrymen's gaze away from the last humiliating weeks. In his first broadcast as Prime Minister last week, Macmillan passed rapidly over the Suez war ("I believe history will justify what we did"), and briskly informed those who saw the imminent end of the American alliance: "We do not intend to part from the Americans and we do not intend to be satellites...
...carries a third of Aramco's production through Arabia and Syria to the Mediterranean. Reportedly, Nasser obliged -by making a telephone call to Syria's Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj who agreed. Iraq's Nuri es Said, who waited too long before demonstrating his support of Nasser, saw his pipelines blown up by the Syrian army...
...ETRUSCAN, by Mika Waltari (381 pp.; Pufnam; $4.50), takes its readers on a Cook's tour of the Mediterranean world of 500 B.C. The voluble guide is a young superman called Turms, who clobbers men, conquers women and seeks his ease in the lap of the gods ("I saw her, the goddess, taking shape and resting lightly on the couch, lovelier than all earthly women . . ."). Turms is also busy making history. He contributes to the death struggle between Greece and Persia by setting fire to the temple of the Persian goddess Cybele in Sardis, helps incite war between Carthage...