Word: saws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Syria, carved out of the Turkish Empire after World War I, gained her independence by French mandate in 1941. The period between the Wars, however, saw intense British and French maneuvering in the Arab world, machinations in which Syria was the pawn. As a result of these Western political manipulations in the area, strong anti-West sentiment festered in Syria, resentment which has remained and has been nurtured by Soviet propaganda and diplomacy...
...backbone of this year's team will be the same that has literally been brought up by Wilson. It is a team that saw glory as freshmen, capturing all its games in '53-'54, Wilson's last as Yardling coach, but which has only suffered frustration the last two years...
...suggested reorganization, Leach saw the post of the secretary of defense would remain essentially the same. Under him, there would be three under secretaries, one watching over ground developments, one watching over air developments and one watching over water developments. The units within the single Armed Force, however, would all wear the same uniform...
...that most contemporary women might well envy. Life with Henry was not exciting, but it had its compensations. ''The Prof read and wrote and taught, and as his fame grew the Longfellows entertained most of the famous writers in flowering New England-Hawthorne, Lowell, Emerson. Fanny always saw them plain, just as she had once seen Henry. Emerson's fame could not keep her from writing: "Where has his humanity gone, I wonder . . . He is like a ghost to me. I never feel he cares, from his heart, for any human being." As for James Russell Lowell...
...while his firm takes the long slide into bankruptcy. The finance company has his Cadillac; creditors are massing like enemy battalions; the money men don't answer their phones when he calls-and the harried businessman responds like a hermit in the grip of a mystical experience: "He saw it all. He couldn't stop talking. He would get his backing, he would recoup, he would be a power in the industry again. Everyone would smile. He would be popular, universally admired. His visions soared ..." Just as quickly, his hopes plummet. But at the story...