Word: shuts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...corrupt and reactionary old politicians, he would like to revive democracy in Egypt. In fact, his narrow little junta of officers have neither the competence, the imagination or the time to administer Egypt's economy; in their distrust of everything past and pro-Western, they have shut themselves off from the middle-class Egyptians who have experience in government, law and business. Last week Nasser called for candidates to list themselves for an election to be held on the eve of the revolution's fifth birthday next month...
Checking the urge to buy foreign luxuries, the new regime confined its imports chiefly to essentials, raw materials for the industrial machine unwillingly inherited but impossible to shut down. Despite austerity, purchases last year cost $184 million more than Argentina's foreign sales brought in. That left not a centavo to spare for catching up on power and fuel needs. Both were jobs that private foreign capital, if welcomed, would like to try. But Aramburu, feeling the hot breath of prideful nationalism, has not given the invitation. The $500 million, U.S.-owned American & Foreign Power Co. Inc. offered last...
...much beholden to William Holden. But the real star of the show is Emmy. What redblooded moviegoing male will be able to resist the seductive lisp with which she murmurs pocketa. and ever so tenderly, queep? Indeed, what husband will not yearn for a female he can shut up, simply by not asking questions...
Brooklyn moved into a tie for second place with Milwaukee, as Don Newcombe shut out the Giants, 6 to 0. Chicago beat Milwaukee 6 to 1, while Philadelphia downed Pittsburgh...
With rare courage and sense of destiny, they agreed. Next day, as banks closed, business came to a standstill and newspapers shut down in protest, tanks and armored cars rolled into the main streets. The business strikers refused to be overawed. Rojas fueled the opposition fire by calling together his puppet Constituent Assembly and ordering it to revoke the long-established sections of the constitution which decreed that a President must be elected by direct popular vote, and that no President may succeed himself...