Word: swapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gordon was avenged in the British manner," and Khartoum became the capital of that "pleasant fiction" entitled "the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan." Few of Gordon's works have survived like his legend-and few Britons are likely to swap this for the brave man of flesh & blood who used humbly to say: "I've been very low, old fellow. Don't be hard on me. This is a terrible country...
...Christmas has degenerated into a spectacle of buying presents. Easter has become a time of buying new hats. Perhaps the Second Coming of Christ will be the occasion for vast sales of binoculars. The average American wouldn't swap his TV set for the best theologian who ever lived...
...Herman, whose father, the late Governor Eugene Talmadge, was agriculture commissioner for six years before he became governor, would like to swap jobs with Linder, take over the influential Agriculture Department until a Senate seat becomes available...
Section men say that it is easier to understand modern government after reading the theories behind it, he added. Campbell felt, however, that section men were about evenly divided on the swap, though he wasn't sure what the results of a vote would...
...official vote of the instructors will be needed before making a swap. An informal discussion will take place with the final decision up to the heads of the course...