Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contented themselves with a mild statement at the end of the meeting explaining that "our silence'' meant, not agreement with the anticolonial remarks, but only a "desire to preserve harmony." When Guinea, the only French territory to vote non to De Gaulle, proposed a resolution asking for special consideration from the U.N. in view of its "desertion" by France, the French merely stared ahead in silence, did not even bother to vote against the resolution. Africa's independent nations were clearly in the saddle, and the representatives of the European powers were resigned to the fact...
...wedding had a special meaning for another of the Nizam's offspring, Shahazadi Pasha, his eldest daughter by a legal wife. She had also been betrothed to a nawab long ago, but the Nizam abruptly canceled the wedding when he was warned by a passing holy man that he would not long survive her marriage. Shahazadi Pasha, now a 40-year-old spinster, often used to drive around Hyderabad with her father in one or another of the old cars he thriftily uses, but she is seldom seen any more...
...ahead"). With the help of the "finest undertaker west of Dodge City," Doc Stucke (clearly related to Gunsmoke's Doc Adams), and loyal, limping Deputy Clyde Diefendorfer (Gunsmoke's Chester), Marshal Dooley watches hawk-eyed over the welfare of the town's citizens, taking special pains that drunks who wander out of the saloons are courteously guided right back inside...
...Some of them were beginning to wonder if the publicity was worth the price. Purred Actress Faye Emerson: "Whenever I open in anything, the very next day a woman calls from Variety and says. 'Did you see our nice review? Oh, by the way, we have a special edition coming up. Wouldn't you like to take an ad?' Usually I can think of ways I'd much rather spend my money. As a matter of fact, I don't read Variety. I'm not all that interested in all the economic stuff they...
...Bank of America became the world's largest private bank by developing special services for almost every need. This week it added three more...