Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visitors and Russian technicians (trickling into Yemen in twos and threes, ostensibly to service arms received under the 1956 Yemen-Soviet pact) have told the Imam how oil enriches Saudi Arabia. Claiming sovereignty over the neighboring protectorate, whose borders he has never formally recognized, the Imam has collected several thousand tribesmen, a dozen or more disaffected sheiks and sultans, a few embittered pretenders to the various petty thrones, and is waging a fugitive war on the British. The turbaned Yemeni guerrillas are a barefoot rabble carrying unoiled Mausers, curved knives, and wearing knee-length skirts of plaid material like kilts...
...considerably less than union minimums. Equity also occasionally suspends its $80 weekly minimum wage so that some companies pay their actors as little as $25 per week. But then no one goes into acting to make money, for the average actor has an annual income of less than a thousand dollars...
...evident that many undergraduates consider the House just another place to sleep. House activities suffer in comparison with college-wide associations; House athletics are dwarfed by varsity sports; and the House as a social community is drained by half a thousand students who seek social identification with various clubs. But most important, the House as an imaginative arrangement for bringing faculty and student together is very little arrangement at all. While the lucky student may make intellectually valuable contacts within the informal atmosphere of the House, for the great majority, contact with tutors comes about as close as the distance...
Shaped like a thousand-mile boot lying on its side, with Jamaica at the top, the Leeward Islands at the heel. Trinidad at the toe, The West Indies unites...
...succession to the throne, flinched on examining his taxes and living expenses, decided to auction off a goodly lot of his family silverware next month. Biggest prize to go on the block: a toilet service featuring Chinese figures, once the pride of King Charles II, valued at "several thousand pounds...