Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carrying a small black bag and had an un-Moslem smell of alcohol about him. A hotel porter took the black bag, accompanied Abdullah to his room, where he put his nightclothes into the bag; then both headed for the prince's suite, where Abdullah was to take up his guard duties. Unhappily they went to the wrong floor. Abdullah's key would not open the door, so the porter got a passkey from the floor manager that...
...into a modern industrial state is doubtful. As Peking has begun to admit, many of the mud-brick blast furnaces are vastly wasteful of coal and are located too far from major industrial centers to be of much value. And the rosy agricultural future that Mao promises does not take into account the possibility of repeated bad harvests ("Weather no longer counts in China"), or the fact that there is presumably a finite limit to the amount of food a given area of ground can produce ("There are no low-yield crops, only low-yield thoughts...
...blockaded Santiago (pop. 200.000), the rebels dare not take on the 3,000-man garrison commanded by Major General Eulogio Cantillo. the army's best tactician. They also fall back before the Staghound armored cars that rumble out of Santiago-but close in again like wraiths when the Staghounds rumble back...
...welcoming the Communists, the handsome naval officer, hero of the revolt that toppled Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez, has entered into a formal alliance no Latin politico has tried since the days of Guatemala's hapless Jacobo Arbenz. In taking Red help, Larrazábal insisted that he is not one of them. "I am not a Communist," he wrote in his acceptance letter. "On the contrary, I am a Catholic of unbreakable faith and a liberal democrat. My acceptance of Communist support does not signify any commitment, present or future." But by running...
...Middle East that Russian promises had succeeded in lining up the votes of eight of the twelve attending archbishops-who are responsible for electing one of three candidates nominated by a council of religious and lay delegates. The Communists also circulated reports of an American imperialist plot to take over the patriarchate with Archbishop Antony Bashir of New York (a U.S. citizen born in Lebanon). The Reds played their final cards two days before the election, when a representative of the Patriarch of Moscow donated some $8,000 to "victims of the Lebanese revolution...