Word: staking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paris the De Gaulle government denounced the seizures as violations of French-Algerian accords, under which nationalization of French property is permitted only if Algeria gives notice and arranges to pay fair compensation. But it will apparently not be the last move against France's dwindling stake in Algeria. In a nationwide speech, Ben Bella announced that all additional French-owned property would be nationalized. His regime has already handed over to peasants some hundreds of thousands of acres expropriated from Frenchmen who have left the country, and it is spending $40 million in French aid to compensate them...
...Swedish poet Georg Stiernhielm was accused of witchcraft for burning a peasant's beard with a magnifying glass, and witches would continue to stalk the lands of Europe for as long as King Louis lived (Durant reports that in Scotland the last one was sent to the stake in 1722). But at the same time, Hooke was developing the compound microscope, which transformed the study of the cell; Nicolaus Steno was studying the development of the earth's crust; Olaus Roemer was determining the velocity of light. And John Locke, in his Second Treatise of Civil Government...
...might not have gotten past Great Britain if Kelleher's gamble had misfired. No Davis Cup captain is supposed to field anyone except his two top-ranking players in Cup play. National honor is at stake, and all that. So everyone assumed that McKinley and Dennis Ralston, who had carried the U.S. past Mexico in the American Zone finals, would play...
...will be the richest and most prestigious contract in the history of U.S. commercial aviation, and last week the nation's leading planemakers lined up in Washington to declare whether they wanted to bid for it. At stake was the contract to build a supersonic transport (dubbed the SST) to compete against the 1,500-m.p.h., delta-wing Concorde that an Anglo-French combine is building and plans to test...
...family stake was begun by their father, Muljibhai Madhvani, who arrived in Uganda in 1905 to trade in salt, flour and seashells. Eventually he traded up to bicycles and farm tools, plowed the profits into new ventures, and bought the sugar plantation for almost nothing from white landowners afraid of the tsetse fly. Madhvani broke in his sons as plantation laborers and ruled with an iron hand. Jayant recalls that "all our meetings were held over the dinner table, and we never left his presence until 11:30 in the evening." Though he has been dead since 1958, Muljibhai...