Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russian gas trucks to sell for a giveaway 25? a gallon in Kabul. Exports (furs, fruit, carpets) that used to stop and go at the Khyber Pass with every Pakistani whim now travel north to more cer tain Soviet markets. U.S. officials estimate that there are already several thousand Soviet do-gooders spreading their blessings in Afghanistan. Last week Kabul's only modern hotel was jammed with members of the 200-man Russian delegation to the city's international trade fair (the U.S. sent three representatives). So benevolent are the Russians that they are not only building...
...young painters to copy colored drawings in cramped caves. Like stone-age Europeans, the early people of the Sahara had their holy shrines deep underground, and they decorated them with magical drawings long after Europeans had given up the custom. The Lhote expedition copied faithfully 400 cave paintings. Ten thousand more were found but not copied...
With his eye on the balance of De Laveaux's wealth, Mazurkiewicz began to woo his widow. Rebuffed at first, Mazurkiewicz persisted. At last he persuaded her to give him several thousand dollars for safekeeping by warning her that he had a tip that the secret police were about to raid her home. When she asked for the money's return, Mazurkiewicz shot her−and her sister for good measure−and buried them both beneath the concrete floor of his garage...
...class of its own. By the same token, for those who could not spend hours before a TV screen or who wanted the story rounded up and interpreted, readable at their own pace and convenience (and available for future reference), the printed page was worth a thousand TV pictures...
...hundreds of items it uses to compile its cost-of-living index. Three years later, by BLS "decree," automatic laundry service and biscuit mix also became necessities. It is easily conceivable that in time the same road will be taken by air conditioning, electric blankets, power steering, and a thousand other amenities. This is the familiar old American process of raising the standard of living...