Word: summonses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sitting cross-legged in their stocking feet in Cairo's vast, thousand-year-old El Azhar Mosque, Islam's two most important military chiefs, Egypt's General Mohammed Naguib and Syria's Colonel Adib Shishekly, heard an ancient, chilling summons. "A jihad (holy war) for the...
Almost any alert bystander can detect an approaching switch in the Communist Party line, but it takes an expert to guess the exact number of rings in a rattlesnake's tail. The Parisian newspaper Le Figaro has an expert who, listening closely to the rattling of the French party...
Gide answered defensively: "What right have you to issue this summons? In what name do you put these questions?" But then his voice fell to pathos: "I am speaking now to a friend, as I should speak to a priest, whose binding duty it is to keep my secret before...
McCarthy said the reason for such a tremendous increase was due in part to the influx of politicians into the Cambridge area during the past few months. "We should warn them a few times," he said, ""but after that, when we'd find them parked in front of the City...
Charlie Chaplin first heard of Claire from Playwright Arthur Laurents, who had seen her in the London production of Ring Round the Moon. Chaplin asked for some pictures. When he saw them ("Those dark eyes and everything!"), Chaplin brought her to New York for a screen test. The test turned...