Word: six-year-old
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...Evian-les-Bains, where, in the Hotel du Pare, at a table purposely made so wide that it will be physically impossible for delegates to shake hands with their opposite numbers, the Algerian rebels and the French will at last try to negotiate an end to the six-year-old Algerian...
...Saigon, Diem's total dropped to 65%, and 26% of the electorate joined the Communist boycott and stayed home. This reflected, among other things, the capital's widespread discontent among business and professional classes at the dictatorial methods Diem feels obliged to employ in his six-year-old fight against the Communist rebellion. But the very size of the opposition vote was evidence that the much abused Diem had run a reasonably honest election...
...were hastily planted in the town's public gardens. The gala preparations were meant not for sun-loving tourists, but for two delegations-one French, the other from the Algerian rebels-that are gathering in Evian in the hope of hammering out a peaceful settlement of the six-year-old Algerian...
...spaniel, but some in South America grow as big as a seal. He looks like a giant, furry snail. He swims as a swallow flies, all liquid grace. He runs like something squeezed out of a tube, and whenever he sits down he looks like a six-year-old girl in her mother's fur coat-in some species his hide is so loose that it hangs down in folds and even spreads out on the ground around him. He is almost as tractable as a dog, certainly more ingenious and inventive. He is violently affectionate, independent, mischievous, curious...
...stucco building in the hills behind Zurich, Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba was ostensibly taking a "nature cure." Actually, he was hard at work-as an invited friend of both sides-directing the elaborate maneuvers designed to bring an end to the six-year-old Algerian...