Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shooting, much of it panicky, spread through the city. A rebel band blew up Premier Sami Solh's vacant home on the edge of Beirut's Moslem quarter. By that night a reported 50 had been killed. The brigade-size Lebanese army, which has been content to be a fire department instead of a combat force, sent armored cars through the streets with searchlights probing rooftops for snipers, held the rebel forces to their old Moslem-quarter strongholds in both Beirut and Tripoli. The U.S. declared an "alert status" for Lebanon, and its Beirut embassy prepared to evacuate...
Shock at Home. But Harold Macmillan stepped off the plane at London Airport to face jolting news. For weeks the country had been watching the Lancashire textile center of Rochdale, where a crucial by-election campaign was being waged to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Tory M.P. Lieut. Colonel Wentworth Schofield. Contesting the seat again for Labor was 47-year-old Jack McCann, a local diesel-engine fitter, who was handily defeated by Schofield in the last general election. A sturdy, 41-year-old real-estate agent from nearby Burnley named John Parkinson was to hold...
DOCILE EDUCATOR to head State University of New York. Post in state government will be vacant Sept. 1. Salary $21,000 yearly, plus use of $97,000 state-owned mansion complete with indoor swimming pool. Also $100 weekly entertainment allowance, and use of Cadillac limousine. Successful applicant must be able to take orders. Apply State Education Building, Albany...
Every day for four weeks the cops had poked around the homes, stores and vacant lots of Springfield, Mo. (pop. 80,500) looking for the weapon used 10 hack to death a shopkeeper and a liquor-store clerk. Last week an off-duty policeman named James Kitchell pushed a hand under an icehouse half a block from the scene of the murders, and pulled out a bloody butcher knife. Kitchell rushed to his boss. Police Chief Warren Norman, with the killer's weapon and an idea of his own: instead of calling the usual press conference...
...carefully and competently labeled, are also carefully unexplored, as if he were afraid that the characters, if given life, would twist out of control. But Hayes is tellingly accurate about the emotions of bored bed partners who do not even 'like each other, and sometimes eloquent about the vacant longings of pretty, light-dazzled girls: "If they expected her to resist, or any of the girls like her, then it would have been wiser in the first place to have concealed all of it: wall around the big estates, and abolish from the newspapers those brides in the expensive...