Word: spent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moment President Nasser unexpectedly observed in a speech last July that "I am not satisfied with what has been achieved in Syria," his new "northern region" has been headed for a housecleaning. In that speech Nasser complained that his Damascus regime had turned up a big deficit and spent all its reserves. Though he did not say so publicly, he was displeased by other developments. He had banned party politics; yet the Baath (socialist) party, the Commu nists and others went on politicking. Syrian Vice President Akram Hourani was acting more like a Prime Minister in Damascus than an executor...
...Occasion of the scrap: Tunney's second honeymoon, which the ex-champ, now a capitalist and director of many corporations, wanted to spend on the wooded Adriatic isle of Brioni, location of Tito's many-splendored summer place. "Thirty years ago," said Gene, "my wife and I spent most of our honeymoon on Brioni...
...head of 3,000,000 Episcopalians in the U.S. is the son of an Oshkosh grocer, was educated at Ohio's Kenyon College and the Episcopal Theological School at Cambridge, Mass. He was dean of Trinity Cathedral in Newark from 1941-48, spent the next three years as professor of pastoral theology at Manhattan's General Theological Seminary. Handsome, jovial "Lichty" Lichtenberger, onetime choir boy, football player and still a devoted Milwaukee Braves fan, holds a solid middle ground between high and low church. He is also known as a wheel in the ecumenical movement. When he heard...
...dying in an abandoned post office in Centerport, L.I. that he had bought as a studio-home, he watched the sea gulls flying past his window. "Their beaks," he wrote, "look like ivory thrown slowly through space." In words, it was the quality and response to nature Dove had spent all his life attempting to capture in paint...
Tanguy and his mother spent 18 months in a concentration camp in South France before she arranged to escape via a kind of underground railway. "Please, please don't leave me behind, Mama," begged Tanguy, and as he watched her go, he felt that "an iron hand was squeezing him inside" and that he would die of misery. ("He had not yet learned that no one ever dies of misery.") The plan was for Tanguy to follow his mother a few days later, on his ninth birthday, but the Nazis closed the escape hatch...