Word: seene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Uncertain Guide. For nearly three weeks, searching parties crisscrossed the scorching desert, and helicopters hovered over the deep desert canyons. Though the travelers had been seen at the U.A.R. border post of El Shallal, they had never turned up at Wadi Haifa. Those whom the police questioned were shocked to hear that anyone had attempted the trip in two small cars not specially equipped for the desert: since all roads and railways end at Aswan, the only really safe way to make the trip is by Nile steamer. The adventurers had either not known this or not cared...
...years since its construction, the Harvard Stadium has seen more football games than any other arena in the United States. Since the Harvard-Dartmouth clash on Nov. 14, 1903, more than 360 contests have been played in the Stadium, including some of the most memorable in football history...
...speech, said, "These are times to try men's souls... I am not a candidate... The President deserves our heartiest congratulations.... New York is a Summer Festival..." Press Secretary Hagerty denied categorically that General Motors had split the cost 50-50. Pogo sagely remarked, "But I ain't even seen the other side of Pogofenokee, yet." Governor Faubus has ordered the back of the Little Rock State House rebuilt...
...Headway' Seen...
Even more than most windups of multiple novels, The Mansion ties up so many loose ends that the string can sometimes hardly be seen for the knots. For a good deal of the way, The Mansion recapitulates the first two books. Flem's dirty deals,Wife Eula's electric sexiness, Daughter Linda's womanly inheritance from her mother, nice Lawyer Stevens' frustrated hankering for them both-none of these can easily be appreciated without some help from The Hamlet and The Town...