Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cement pillboxes dot the rolling plains of Thrace; piles of stone lie by the roadsides for emergency roadblocks. From the border of Bulgaria in the west to Ararat in the east, Turkish riflemen stand guard. Almost half a million men are in the armed forces-a staggering burden for a poor country of 19 million people. Defense takes 40% of Turkey's budget...
...American Appraisal Co.; Coverdale & Colpitts; Ebasco Services, Inc.; Ford, Bacon & Davis, Inc.; Jackson & Moreland; Madigan-Hyland; F. H. McGraw & Co.; Sanderson & Porter; Standard Research Consultants, Inc.; Stone & Webster Engineering Corp.; J. G. White Engineering Corp...
John R. Lotz, chairman of Manhattan's Stone & Webster, announced the plan for Persia. In five bound volumes of 1,250 pages, O.C.I, provided the King of Kings with a blueprint for economic revolution, and U.S. and Western European businessmen with a guide to a vast new area of relatively untapped markets...
...rushed an Estonian mother to a maternity ward just in time (twins), and browbeat the government into giving the refugees an unused army camp for their stay. Cork's taxi drivers even sacrificed good fares to take the penniless voyagers by the carload up to kiss the Blarney Stone...
...High on a bamboo scaffolding, pudgy, white-haired August Ferdinand Schmiedigen, 66-year-old boss architect of Haiti's International Exposition, dangled a stone on the end of a long string. Then, having shown his sweating black masons that their wall was not plumb, he hopped down to take a rest. "I've never worked so hard in my life," he gasped...