Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wild Adventures." Abdullah's reins would likely pull him up short of that grand design. But few supposed that he would peaceably give up the Arab parts of Palestine. That might, indeed, fit British hopes for the Middle East: they need a secure corridor from the Mediterranean (probable outlet: Gaza) through friendly Hashimite kingdoms to the oil and bases of Iraq. As long as they hold Abdullah's purse strings, they will try to hold Abdullah to this more modest plan. Said a British official in Amman last week: "The Legion will be very prudent. We want...
Both sides last week contained men who felt compelled to boast of tomorrow. Whatever hope there was of an understanding between Israel and the Arab states, short of years of debilitating conflict, lay in the fact that there were also some who were boasting as little as possible...
...infield, especially Eddie Joost (a shortstop who wears glasses) is inspired. But the team as a whole is slow afoot and short on power hitters...
Cost: about $280 million, besides what local governments in the tropics spend. But there is a danger of starting a campaign and then running out of money. A medical entomologist in the British colonial service warned: "If work should cease, even for a relatively short time, the vectors [mosquitoes] would return and we would be in the position of having produced a population without natural immunity...
...Duff" Duffy, son of a Jersey City cop, was barred from a life class at the Art Students League in Manhattan because he was still in short pants. He went to work on the old New York Herald and the Evening Post as an illustrator and left, at 22, to sail for Europe with only $150 in his pocket. He studied art and sipped vermouth on an empty stomach in Paris, then came back home to the Eagle...