Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just as mixed and mixed up was the first reaction of the outside world. The British and French governments publicly hailed the new plan. The Arab world was divided: the Baghdad Pact nations in favor and the extreme Nasser nationalists against. "We reject most categorically the theory of a vacuum," said Jordan's Foreign Minister Abdullah Rimawy...
...newspaper readers, the FBI is such a familiar story that J. Edgar Hoover has supplanted the vacuum cleaner as a household word for efficiency. Nevertheless, newspapers across the nation last week were breathlessly running-or preparing to run-serials on the FBI as if it were the most wanted story and the biggest since Grace Kelly took Monaco. Papers across the U.S. plugged an Associated Press series that started this week. The United Press had its own series on the FBI and the Chicago Tribune Press Service a third...
...Morocco to Pakistan. Any Middle Eastern nation that asks for help against a Red threat will get it. Any threatened nation that does not request help will not get it. The new policy will be a voluntary and cooperative endeavor. In effect, the U.S. is moving into a power vacuum left by the decline of British power and the depletion of the British treasury. Moreover, the British and French, by attacking Suez, have all but wrecked their political acceptance in the area; the U.S. therefore took its move last week...
Arab officialdom was more cautious. There was no vacuum, they maintained, that the Arab peoples could not fill. The Egyptians reaffirmed that they are cold war neutrals, that the only outside force they want in the Middle East is the U.N. In Washington, Syria's ambassador to the U.S., Farid Zeineddine, warned that no new U.S. moves into the Middle East could apply without "prior and explicit agreement" with the Arabs-which is a key provision of the U.S. plan...
SUPERCHARGED ENGINE, officially rated at 300 h.p., will be offered for $447 extra on Fords and Thunderbirds as Ford's answer to Chevrolet's 283-h.p. fuel injection engine. New Ford V-8 engine uses no manifold vacuum to draw fuel to carburetor; instead, fuel-air mixture is blown into cylinders...