Word: thousand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parliament house last week demanding votes for Egyptian women. Gaining the office of Senate President Aly Zaki el-Orabi Pasha, Madame Chafik found it empty, picked up the telephone, called Orabi Pasha, who was ill at his home. Said she: "I am speaking from your own office. A thousand women are outside demanding their political rights...
...soldiers, including nine battalions of British, eight of Gurkhas, and four (soon to be six) of Malays. They are supported by some R.A.F. planes and Royal Navy ships. Despite all efforts, however, the number of Communists does not seem to diminish, but stays consistently between three and five thousand...
...million, two hundred thousand dollars--all the money not earmarked for scholarships, library, teaching fellows, and research--will be used to meet the building expenses of the Graduate Center. The Law School's quota is somewhere above this $1,200,000 and below $1,650,000, the original estimate...
...declared that had it been running the government, it would have got some concessions from the U.S. before committing troops. Prime Minister Menderes loftily said that he would not quibble with the U.S. and the U.N. on so critical a matter. "I'd decide the same way a thousand times," he snapped. A great wake of national pride has followed the waves of fierce Turkish troops who, with bayonets bared, have performed so gallantly and colorfully in Korea...
...village elders: cooperate by Jan. 27, or have your property confiscated. Thais and Muongs began taking refuge behind the French lines. The French recruited them at 350 (good) piasters a month, armed them with rifles, mortars. Soon the French had a barefooted, beret-wearing, mobile mountain force of several thousand...