Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ambassador to Taipei Everett Drumright seemed equally nonplused. Drumright reported Formosa's mood to Washington in such terms that Dulles, promptly, reassuringly, sent word to Chiang that U.S. policy had not changed...
Much else that lies in the 8,000-word constitution of De Gaulle seems obscure and remains to be determined by "organic laws" yet to be written, but a powerful new nine-man Constitutional Council (three members each appointed by the President of the Senate, the President of the Assembly and the President) will have much the same power as the U.S. Supreme Court to determine the legality of laws and acts...
...readier to accept French authority than that of the Dey. Rallying behind AbdelKader, the handsome, 25-year-old son of a holy man, they launched a jihad (holy war) to expel the infidel. French General Thomas-Robert Bugeaud, a veteran of Napoleon's Spanish campaign, where the word guerrilla was invented, responded with a tactic called the razzia -a swift, merciless strike at a native village, sparing nothing and nobody. In one razzia, in 1845, nearly 500 Algerian men, women and children were asphyxiated by fires lit at the mouth of a cave in which they had taken refuge...
...which read, DOWN WITH COLONIALISM, FREE MESSALI. There was a scuffle as gendarmes tried to wrest the banners away, and then, inevitably, a shot rang out. In sudden fury, bands of Moslems took off through Setif, savagely attacking every European they saw with clubs, knives and hatchets. And as word of the Setif "uprising" spread through the rugged mountains of Kabylia, bloodthirsty Berber bands, killing, pillaging and looting, set off on the warpath against the area's 200,000 Europeans...
...legalize gambling in the Miami area after ex-Heavyweight Champ Jack Dempsey, 63. now a heavy 250 or so, stepped up to say that he and some Manhattan backers had $1,000.-ooo to open a casino. But both Bade and Bempsey went down for the count when word of the project reached Governor...