Word: takeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist countries, and 100 Egyptians. They have worked well. By way of improvement, Younis hopes to install radar, walkie-talkies for pilots, and eventually closed-circuit TV to control headquarters ashore. He also talks of building a smaller canal paralleling the present one, to facilitate passing. All this will take major outside financial...
Morocco, which joined the league when Tunisia did, refused to go along with Bourguiba's attack. Said one Moroccan lawyer, however: "Bourguiba is terribly awkward, but he said what most of us believe. The Egyptians take millions from the Communists and have the nerve to call us lackeys for accepting a penny from America...
...landlords of Iran are as numerous and as niggardly as ever in the national parliament and ministries, the Shah boldly cut off one of their most cherished privileges. Through the years, on top of their usual fat share of their tenants' crops, landlords have been accustomed to take "gifts" from their peasants of "cattle, lambs, chickens, eggs, marriage dues, fines for quarreling, and presents taken on the eve of festivals." Effective at once, the government of Iran ordered provincial governors and police to put a stop to all such practices...
...desk. "All the great are gone, one way or another. It is my turn. To come in second behind an Ascari or a Fangio is still a triumph, but to come in second behind an unknown beginner because his young reflexes are quicker or his inexperience pushes him to take unnecessary risks can be tough for an aging champ. It will not happen to me. I will never go near a race track again, not even as a spectator...
...Force's choice as test pilot when his friend Captain Iven Kincheloe Jr. was killed in an F-104 this summer, is scheduled to do the first "maximum-performance" testing. Translated from officialese, this means that, if all goes well, Captain White will be the first man to take the X-15 into empty space, and to bring it back, its stubby wings glowing red-hot, safely to earth...