Word: slowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What had brought about this revival from the dead? For one, an increased Arab concern over Egypt's President Nasser and his involvement with Russia. For another, the slow recognition that the Eisenhower Doctrine is genuinely intended to help the Middle Eastern nations to preserve their independence and viability. With Saudi Arabia's King Saud shifting his considerable weight to the side of his fellow kings in Iraq and Jordan, the four Moslem pact countries suddenly found that they could safely reassert their common concern against the Communist threat and their membership in a useful instrumentality that...
Purging the Planners. The Development Board has made its share of mistakes. It failed to train enough people to staff the new schools, hospitals, factories. From a political point of view, it was too slow to add what experts call "impact" projects, i.e., works that hungry, impoverished Iraqis can see in front of them, instead of distant dams that take years to build. The board started only last year to build its first 2,500 low-cost housing units in the capital. Nuri confessed to Parliament last fall that the highway-building program had been "a failure," owing to inadequate...
...Diem and his fellow leaders across anti-Communist Asia-from Korea to the Philippines-a U.S. capitulation to Peking, either by dramatic act or slow erosion, would be a catastrophe. To the U.S.'s Asian flank in the cold war, it would be a mortal blow...
...harrowing story. The fellaghas had brought in the men from other nearby villages, trussed them up and flung them into the shacks. At nightfall, they began a systematic slaughter. The men were forced out of the huts one by one and shot as they emerged. When this proved too slow, the rebels simply sprayed bullets into the dark interiors. Other fellaghas fell on the survivors with knives and axes, butchering them in a frenzy of blood...
Conversations in the simple system Koestler had described, relayed from one cell to another, were slow and ceased altogether when suspicious guards were listening, or the prison plumbing gurgled. Then Florence tensely listening discovered that her footsteps could be heard by Ignotus, and a new system of slow and heavy pacing was adopted. In the next year of paced conversations, Paul and Florence carried out one of history's unique courtships. Says she: "I never walked so much in my life...