Word: six
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Turks) and I could hear him screaming . . . When he came out his feet were so swollen that he couldn't get [them] in his shoes and could just about walk. His handkerchief was bloody and he was crying . . . McCuistion was beaten in the morning. I saw him about six . . . They then separated us and I didn't see him any more until 1100 hours. His shirt was torn, no glasses on, blood and scratches on his face and red bruises all over his body. He was also crying and saying: 'They're going to kill...
...Unveiling. Inaugurator and chief manipulator of Afghanistan's profitable "positive neutrality" is tough, bald Prime Minister Mohammed Daoud, 50. Cousin to Afghanistan's figurehead King Mohammed Zahir Shah, Daoud took over as Prime Minister six years ago, deals with everything from high policy to trivial administrative details. Hard-working and ironfisted, he is quick to jail even his own Cabinet ministers if they step out of line...
...love you, Banda, dear," his critics hooted, "because you change from year to year." Yet Banda's talent for political survival was so astonishing that a cartoonist once pictured him as a grinning cat, leaning on his own sixth gravestone and saying, "Well, six down, three to go." Though he once actually fell short of a parliamentary majority, he managed to hold on to power by a judicious distribution of parliamentary secretaryships and minor portfolios. He survived brawls and Cabinet mutinies, ruled, until his death, with a shaky majority...
...Six weeks ago, Villeda Morales joined Tegucigalpa Archbishop Emilio Morales Roque in dedicating the nation to both the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary-making his the first government anywhere to take the two pledges simultaneously.* Since then, a task force of more than 100 priests has traveled the jungles of southern Honduras on a "Holy Mission": bringing the sacraments to a neglected people...
After a swing through northern and western Honduras, 45 priests (from nine religious orders in six Latin American countries and Spain), who came to reinforce the local clergy, will move on next month to prepare for a similar blitz effort in neighboring Nicaragua. Said President Villeda Morales: "We reiterate our determination to put into divine hands the destiny of Honduras." Pope John XXIII declared that from the new dedication "the graces of heaven have been falling in torrents on your souls...