Word: thousand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before his death, he made Mecca, and especially the Kaaba, a center of veneration that was to draw a thousand times more pilgrims than had ever worshiped at Mecca's polytheist shrines...
Forty-one thousand men will be drafted in October, the Defense Department announced yesterday, an increase of 6,820 over the September call. The Marine Corps will get, 5,000, the Army...
...dragging, nagging way of doing things. They finally bypassed him as bargainer, picked Union Vice President Clarence Sayen, the 32-year-old pilot who shortly before had negotiated a contract with Pan American World Airways. Said one union member: "We're sick and tired of Behncke's thousand-word telegrams giving the world 24 hours to get out." Behncke was furious. He fired Sayen and two other union officials. But the executive board countermanded the orders...
...inlet of the Rhine, bleachers ashore for 3,000 spectators and snack bars plastered with Coca-Cola signs. It promotes itself as "The City of the Operetta Festival." The single operetta to be staged all this summer: a jazzed-up version of Johann Strauss the Younger's A Thousand and One Nights...
...Prince Who Was a Thief (Universal-International) is the kind of frothy, nonalcoholic, Arabian-nights cocktail that Hollywood has shaken up a thousand and one times. Brusque handclaps still bring on the harem dancing girls; Tangier bristles with flashing scimitars, wicked potentates, skulking cutpurses, rococo palaces and phrases...