Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Short, stocky Ibrahim Abboud, 58, is known to his fellow officers as a fatherly type. Born on the Red Sea coast, a member of the Hadendowa tribe that furnished the Fuzzy-Wuzzies immortalized by Rudyard Kipling for breaking a British square, Abboud became an army lieutenant in 1921, served with the British in Eritrea and North Africa during World War II, emerged as a colonel commanding a camel corps, and was finally named chief of staff by Premier Khalil...
...slogan," cried Prime Minister Robert Menzies in his booming campaign voice, "is Australia Unlimited, and we pronounce it with confidence." But for all their leader's enthusiasm, it was with something short of unlimited confidence that the members of Australia's Liberal-Country coalition government approached last week's elections to the Senate and the House. In the nine years since he was swept into office on an anti-Socialist wave, the Prime Minister has given his country prosperity, has whipped rising inflation, boosted pensions, introduced a national health service, proved a stout friend...
Scars of War. In the deadlock. Cuba increasingly shows the scars of civil war: food shortages, shots in the night, silent factories. Havana's flashy hotels echo emptily. Trains that used to go to Santiago now stop short at Santa Clara, in mid-island. Planes fly from heavily guarded terminals, the passengers frisked before they board...
...Damascus this week, at the Cathedral of Mariameyeh (the Virgin Mary), a short, portly man with rosy cheeks and a long white beard, in vestments of gold and silver brocade, received a golden staff topped with twin serpents-and thus became the 173rd Patriarch of Antioch and of All the East, the post revered by Eastern Orthodoxy as the oldest seat in Christendom.-Behind his election loomed a battle between Communism and the West...
Pope John XXIII rode through cheering crowds of Romans this week to take formal possession of the cathedral church of the Bishop of Rome-the great, grey basilica of St. John Lateran. Popes in bygone times used to make the short journey across the city on horseback, which sometimes enlivened the occasion with incident: Clement XIV (1769-74), for instance, fell from his horse on dismounting, only to assure alarmed aides that he was "confusus" but not "contusus." Sixtus V (1585-90) corrected the flattering observation of an ambassador that he had "mounted easily" with the admonition...