Word: thirds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once covered the meadows around the fortress city of Augsburg, where the family fortune began. Brother Jakob was the genius of the Fuggers, buying silver mines in the Tyrol, exporting textiles, metal and salt to lands beyond the seas, bringing back rare spices, furs and fruit. Almost one-third of Augsburg's 34,000 people were employed by the Fuggers, and kings and emperors knocked on Jakob's door for funds to wage a war or buy support in an election...
...eleven years since it won independence from Britain, Ceylon has had a cautious, conservative government and a wild-eyed Socialist one. Last week, in the third year of the Socialist administration of frail, fidgety Premier Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike, 60, Ceylon sweltered in the pre-monsoon heat. In the capital city of Colombo, the stores were packed with luxury goods, the streets jammed with cars, the sidewalks filled with smiling people and saffron-robed Buddhist monks under black umbrellas. In the lush countryside there were signs of the paralyzing drought that had lasted for months. But the island...
...microphone, Figueres recalled that "our group gave what modest aid it could to end tyranny in Cuba" (notably a planeload of arms to Castro in his darkest days). Figueres went on to say that "in Latin America we ignore a little the possibility of a great conflagration, of a third World War." He anxiously noted that in dealing with the U.S. "at times we speak in the language almost of warlike enemies." He confessed "worry" about Communist influence in Latin America and warned against siding with the Soviets in the cold war. At this point, David Salvador, young chief...
...blues away." After that the two sections sang together in a bouncing counterpoint, with the "brass" falling back and punctuating the "reed" line with repeated "yeahs!" Farther along, Singers Lambert and Ross took over the role of "trombones," while Hendricks as a solo "reed" came in on every third line. In the finale, the three bundled their heads at the microphone in a blast of harmony: "Dig Basic, and every day he'll blow your blues away, yeah...
This was no sudden shift for Actress Taylor, who had been raised as a Christian Scientist. She first thought of adopting the Jewish faith when she married her third husband, the late Mike Todd-born Avrom Goldbogen, grandson of a Polish rabbi. Her friendship with Singer Eddie Fisher, a Jew, may have increased her concern with Judaism. About six months ago she began studying under Rabbi Max Nussbaum of Hollywood's Temple Israel...