Word: thousand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best qualified to judge the effects of the massive U.S. defense program broke the cost down to family-budget size. Said Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson: "Over a period of two years or so, this will carry a price tag of about a thousand dollars for every man, woman and child in the country." That is more-much more-than the total per capita income of most of the 2 billion human beings in the world...
After a despairing conference with his advisers, Tibet's ruler, the 16-year-old Dalai Lama, made a hasty flight from his capital. Ahead of him went a thousand-mule train carrying 75 tons of the palace treasures. Before leaving, the Lama's government notified Chinese Communist headquarters that it was defenseless and ready to sue for peace. The new rulers of Tibet radioed back instructions to all government officers to stay...
...Several thousand people could be crowded into the bowels of Lamont in the event of an air raid, Keyes D. Metcalf, director of the University Library, told the CRIMSON last night. "It would be pretty stuffy," he admitted, "but it could be done...
...After Franco's victory, Gonzalez had fled to Russia. First he was made a Soviet army general, but soon he was under arrest. He was put to digging the Moscow subway, later was shuttled from slave camp to slave camp. He told the Paris court: "Six thousand Spanish comrades came with me to Russia. When I escaped in 1948, only 1,200 were left. The others perished...
...Thousand Times Good-Night." In Cairo, Egypt, Aliyah Ibrahim got a divorce after telling the judge that her husband's passion for reading poetry aloud interfered with her sleep: "It is not worthwhile getting up in the middle of the night to listen to Shakespeare...