Word: stringed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...particularly careful coverage in Marshal Sarit's own personal chain of newspapers, while Marshal Sarit's commercial connections were discussed in the columns of General Phao's papers. The activities of both Phao and Sarit, in turn, were dutifully reported by Premier Pibul's string of newspapers, and with this delicate system of checks and balances, Thailand's government has survived an impressive list of ups and downs...
...prestige is at all equal to Sukarno's: Mohammed Hatta. Hatta, one of the "founding fathers" of Indonesia along with Sukarno, resigned last December as Vice President, in protest at Sukarno's insistence on Communist participation in his "guided democracy," which has helped the Communists win a string of electoral victories in Java...
...hour. Then one shouted. "We'll surrender, but only if Bigeard signs a safe-conduct saying that we won't be tortured." Down in the street, tough French Paratroop Colonel Marcel Bigeard ordered a ceasefire, and then watched as the terrorists lowered a small bundle by string to the street. Two French officers and a noncom walked over to inspect this "token of surrender"; it blew up. wounding all three and narrowly missing Bigeard...
...attending to one thing at a time to resume tinkering with electricity. The principle of the telegraph was in his head. After a decade of tinkering Morse achieved what he was after. Sitting in the gallery of the House of Representatives, he saw the bill passed authorizing him to string some experimental wire between Washington and Baltimore, and 15 months later -on May 24, 1844-he flashed the first message over those 41 miles: WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT...
...Minneapolis with his parents and six-year-old sister Wendy for a week's fishing. His hosts: Minnesota's Governor Orville Freeman and nine-year-old son Mike, who angled unsuccessfully with Benny in Gull Lake (later, fishing with his father, Benny reeled in a creditable string of bass). Behaving as if he were running for governor himself, Benny paraded with a dairy princess, mugged happily at a press conference, offered the fruit of his experience to Young America: "Stay away from holes in the ground...