Word: stone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vice president of the Cabinet. Last week street fighting broke out between the feuding tribes in the capital city of Djibouti. Among those arrested by police who broke up the battle was none other than Vice President Harbi himself, who had just been banged over the head with a stone. On the grounds that street fighting is no way for a public official to behave, the Paris-appointed French Governor ousted Somaliland's No. i national leader from the government...
...Noble Guard, with golden helmets and drawn swords, took up a vigil at the bedside. Later they guarded the body during its 15-mile-long trip to the Vatican, through the Roman streets that the first native Roman Pope in 200 years had loved well, passing a stone's throw from the house where he was born...
Three University officials yesterday lauded the late Stefan Valavanis, former assistant professor of Economics, for his outstanding work in various branches of the field of Economics. Gottfried Haberler, Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade, Richard T. Gill, Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Leverett House, and George A. Buttrick, Preacher to the University, spoke at a special service held yesterday afternoon in Memorial Church. Valavanis died after an accidental shooting last summer...
...discovery of new form." This week Man-hattan's Museum of Modern Art, celebrating its renovation after its near-disastrous fire (TIME, April 28), is giving 71-year-old Sculptor Arp a thoroughgoing retrospective show that includes 113 paste-ups, oils, string pictures, wood reliefs, and stone sculptures (see color...
...came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world and as large as alone...