Word: senting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rule (the Communists and all other parties are banned), economic strains were being felt. Syrian foreign exchange holdings had shrunk in half in the merger's first year. Nasser's determination to force Syria's free-enterprise economy into Egypt's state socialist mold had sent private capital into flight, and threatened to make Syria's hard pound almost as soft as Egypt's. It had been a disastrous year for Syria's wheat and barley crops. But Gamal Abdel Nasser himself seemed still to be the most popular man in the country...
Last week, with Tito at his side as he addressed an anniversary crowd in Cairo's tented Republic Square, Nasser announced in a two-hour speech that he had sent a personal letter to Khrushchev complaining about Communist skulduggery in Syria. He had just received Khrushchev's reply: Russia would stay out of "U.A.R. internal affairs" and "continue sincerely to support your struggle despite our ideological differences...
When Queen Victoria ruled the waves, Lord Palmerston sent the fleet to blockade the port of Athens simply to collect damages for a Gibraltar-born Jewish Briton whose house had been destroyed by a Greek mob. "A British subject in whatever land he may be," proclaimed the Queen's Foreign Secretary, "shall feel that the strong arm of England will protect him against injustice and wrong...
...Friends of Lourdes" (among the members: Backer Melvina Rivet), which promptly required shrine passes from all pilgrims (86^ for French, $1.72 for foreigners), launched sidelines to bring in more money-sale of medals, souvenirs, books. Aghast at more commercialism, Bishop Théas protested to Rome, which finally sent a coadjutor bishop to keep an eye on the enterprising association...
...them grow up to be gangsters. As a matter of fact, that is what the heroine (Sophia Loren), the widow of a racketeer, is afraid her son will do. The boy is only twelve years old, and already he has been caught tampering with a parking meter and sent off to a work farm. The hero (Anthony Quinn), a well-preserved, middle-aged widower with a small business of his own, makes the widow a heartfelt proposal: Let's get married and give the boy a decent home to grow...