Word: thirds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dominican revolution of 1930 which established Rafael Trujillo as the country's warlord, Third Secretary Cabot served as liaison between the two sides, helped negotiate the peace, was commended for bravery and upped two grades in the foreign service...
Louisiana has called a Governors' race and set Dec. 5 as primary day. And sure enough, Louisiana's third-time (1939-40, 1948-52, 1956-60) Governor Earl Long, 63, has put himself squarely in the running-even though, according to law, he appears to be politically paralyzed...
...only three days before De Gaulle spoke in Bourges, one of the worst riots since the Algerian war began broke out in Constantine, Algeria's third largest city. Enraged by a rebel attack outside town on two young Europeans and their teenage dates-one girl was kidnaped, the other three youngsters murdered-a mob of settlers surged through Constantine's streets wrecking Moslem shops, beating up such hapless Moslem citizens as fell into their hands, and shouting: "De Gaulle to the gallows!" Next day Moslem youths counterattacked in the streets, wielding knives, razors and steel-tipped clubs against...
...year a record 1,345,832 applied), there is a constant backlog of a quarter-million unlicensed drivers. The L-plate army is growing. In less than two years nearly half the 2,000,000 Britons who took driver's tests flunked them, many for the second and third time. All Britain cheered last month when 39-year-old Derek Brown passed his test: he had been driving with L plates for 22 years and failed twelve previous exams...
...jungle state the size of New Jersey with a population of nearly a million Malays, Indians and Chinese. When he took power in 1895 on the death of his father, the Sultan shifted the economy from opium and gambling to rubber. With other Malay states, Johore now produces one-third of the world's natural rubber. He angrily opposed self-rule for Malaya, outraged local nationalists by snapping: "It is all very well to clamor for independence, but where are your warships, your planes and your army to withstand aggression from the outside...