Word: saws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ability in the U.N. to match any other Arab in anti-Israeli invective). With dignity and courage, Jamali said he had favored Arab unity but not under Nasser, nor by Nasser's sleazy methods. Jamali had supported Iraq's membership in the Baghdad Pact because he saw only two possibilities for a modern state, either "strength or alliance with one of the big blocs. We are not strong, and therefore we must join an alliance. I chose the West...
...dance for us. They went out for a few minutes, then came back, twirling hula hoops about their waists while the hi-fi played rock 'n' roll. The evening ended after only two hours, and it cost us a fortune. It was the damndest thing I ever saw...
...move trains, heat homes, cook food. An estimated 2.3 billion-bbl. oil reserve lies underground, but the government oil monopoly, Y.P.F., has only enough resources to produce 35% of the country's requirements. Dollar-short Argentina spent more than $300 million last year to import the rest. Frondizi saw only one solution. Risking the wrath of nationalistic Peronistas (and nationalists in his own Radical Party), he negotiated $1 billion worth of development contracts with foreign oil companies, mostly from the U.S. (TIME, Aug. 4). Signed up were Pan American International Oil Co., Union Oil Co., Lane-Wells...
...literary fate that to a writer can be worse than death-public and critical neglect. In 1937 Fitzgerald packed himself, like "a cracked plate," off to Hollywood, not to recoup his life but to repay his $40,000 debts. There, across two dinner tables in a crowded restaurant he saw handsome Hollywood Columnist Sheilah Graham and said, "I like you." There was to be another act for Fitzgerald, after...
Although Gilmore saw no "a prlorl reason why a mixed tutorial group would work better or worse than a homogeneous group," other officials declared themselves in favor of mixed groups...