Word: spent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vigorously denouncing the U.A.R. for indirect aggression, impetuously enfolded Fawzi in a bearlike embrace. And two days later, when it came time for formal presentation of the Arab resolution to the Assembly, the job was done by the Sudan's Foreign Minister, Mohammed Mahgoub, whose country has spent most of its brief independent life fighting off annexation by Egypt...
...85th Congress, in its final hours last week, passed a $3.3 billion foreign aid bill, many were the critics prepared as always to judge the wisdom and virtue of each congressional session by the sheer size of this key appropriation. Such people measure influence abroad by dollars spent, and were thus easy targets for those who regard foreign aid as simple bribery, and are angered every time a beneficiary does not toe the line...
Fellow honor students, Stepho and Nadia fell in love. When not taking Nadia to dances or to the movies, Stepho spent his spare time in such places as Faisal's Snack Bar on the Avenue Bliss, where hot-eyed students argued Pan-Arab politics. Stepho daydreamed of being a jet pilot in the service of Nasser and Arab nationalism...
Born the son of an Uppland (eastern Sweden) forester, Bror Hjorth early decided to become an artist, had barely begun when he developed tuberculosis, spent six months in a sanatorium, followed by four years of convalescence. "Those were the most valuable years," says Hjorth. "I began thinking and experiencing nature.'' Finally cured. Hjorth switched to sculpture, went to Paris to study with Rodin's famed pupil. Antoine Bourdelle dabbled in cubism, finally found his artistic forefather in Paul Gauguin...
...Behrman's screenplay, adapted from Jacobowsky and the Colonel, his 1944 Broadway version of a play by Austria's Franz Werfel, Jacobowsky has "spent most of my life trying to become a citizen of some country ... In the technique of flight, you might say I'm an expert." He needs to be. When he bribes a Rothschild chauffeur into selling him "the last car in all Paris," he is able to prevent its being commandeered by the colonel only by hiding the gasoline until promised a ride. Once aboard, he finds they are heading not south toward...