Word: takings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sahara oilmen dismissed as impractical even Soustelle's more modest plans to bring their wives and families to the desert. And many hardheaded French businessmen and bureaucrats, noting that it will probably take the oil companies 30 years to amortize the investments they have already made in the Sahara, pooh-pooh Soustelle's industrialized Sahara as visionary...
...must take one step backward in order to take 100 steps forward," declared tough, chunky Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat, 51, and with that convenient philosophy in mind last October, he took over Thailand's government, abrogated the constitution, dissolved the Parliament, abolished political parties, and set up martial law. Since most of the democratic trappings of the country were more apparent than real, Thailand did not seem to mind such highhandedness at all. Weeks ago, as the Buddhist Lenten season of Purima Pansa began. Thai temples gleamed with new coats of gold in keeping with the old adage. "When...
...Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D.C. because of his liver-the result of a lifetime of high living-that some of the country's tolerated bad habits had become intolerable. To break up the entrenched corruption and to ward off the increasing appeal of Communism, Sarit decided to take on the premiership in person. He liked to think of himself as the Thai Charles de Gaulle, but with Oriental variation he had also about him a good deal of Manhattan's late effervescent Mayor Fiorello La Guardia...
...Revive in your own house the lost art of romance and take a bath with your husband . . . Step daintily into the bubble-filled tub. Mon Dieu, this is no time to bend over . . . Don't offer to his horrified eyes the ungainly sight of a bare bottom that will only remind him of a blimp struggling through a storm...
...identical Citizen and Dispatch stories, the Citizen began rewriting pressagents' handouts. With considerable Tightness, Franken and Grove pointed out that a football game for charity (Philadelphia Eagles v. Chicago Bears), sponsored by the Dispatch and the Columbus Ohio State Journal, cost Ohio taxpayers $60,000 more than the take...