Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...century B.C. Philae is already flooded five months of the year by the existing dam at Aswan, and when the first stage of the new High Dam is completed upstream by Soviet engineers and Egyptian workmen in 1965, the island and its temple may vanish beneath a second lake created between the two dams...
...Nehru's own waverings and hesitations these past weeks, his most determined opponents have been the Indian press and Indian students. The first he has called "excitable," and the second, "vulgar." But even the press last week was offering some comfort to Nehru. A volume titled A Study of Nehru, published by the Times of India, is a birthday compilation of 62 opinions-mostly laudatory-by such authorities as President Tito of Yugoslavia, Eleanor Roosevelt, Lord Mountbatten, Adlai Stevenson, Bertrand Russell and Soviet Journalist Ilya Ehrenburg...
Getting dazedly to his feet, Mahmud gestured toward the hangman, grinned and shouted to the crowd: "He wants another ring!" He twisted his bound hands sufficiently to draw out a second ring from his pocket. The crowd broke into ululations of "Salavat!" Someone shouted for Mahmud to sing a song, and he obliged. A peasant stepped forward, cried: "I am from Kuchesfahan. I don't know this man and don't know why they are hanging him. Let them hang me in his stead." Others cried: "He is young-have pity!" and "Let him live...
Kabalevsky's somberly flowing Concerto for Cello and Orchestra proved such a hit that the composer-conductor finally signaled to Soloist Mayes. repeated the second movement, a rare procedure in staid old Symphony Hall. Khrennikov's First Symphony proved to be a broadly melodic crowd-rouser, and Amirov's Kyurdi-Ovshari Mugami was so heavily coated with schmalzy melody that one listener cracked: "The triumph of the proletariat on Bald Mountain." Nevertheless, the audience shouted its approval, while the Russians, standing on the stage, applauded the spectators in return. "For Symphony Hall," said the radio announcer...
After only four games for Brasenose, Dawkins had developed enough to draw an occasional and modulated "Well done, Peter," from fellow players, was promoted to the Greyhounds, Oxford's second team, and started against Sandhurst, Britain's West Point. Playing right-wing three-quarter back, Dawkins scored the first try for his team by neatly sidestepping five desperate tackles, ended the game with six of the Greyhounds' points in their 29-3 triumph...