Word: belongings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...experts are in close agreement on what cancer is. First, it is not one disease any more than "infection" is. Cancers ravage the entire plant and animal kingdoms. In man there are 200 to 300 kinds, though 90% of human cancers belong to 30 common types. So "cancer" is a collective term...
...appalling atrocities of Hitler: to make every possible effort to prevent such a disaster falling on the people of Israel. For although Hitler was defeated, his disciples in the Middle East still live, and it is they who rule in the Arab countries that surround us. Israel does not belong to any alliance. We, more than any other nation, need friends. The Germany of today is not the Germany of Hitler, and I refer to the geopolitical transformation that has taken place in Western Europe. It is our duty to adopt all measures to safeguard our peace and security...
Stinging Taunts. Early in March each year, Meo tribesmen journey to the small Laotian town of Xiengkhouang, sell their surplus crop at about $30 a kilo to middlemen, hardheaded types who belong to something known as the Corsican brotherhood. From here the business gets into illicit channels and high prices. By pony caravan, or by light planes that take off from jungle airfields built by the French during their five-year war with Communist Viet Minh, the raw opium is transported to Bangkok and Hong Kong, bought by Chinese dealers at up to $1,000 a kilo and refined into...
...silver and red velvet throne and swore into office Prime Minister B. P. Koirala and 19 other ministers. Then everyone present raced across town through streets swarming with mosquitoes for the swearing-in of the 109 successful candidates in Nepal's first elections for M.P.s. More than half belong to the Prime Minister's Nepali Congress Party, but included is a vociferous handful of Communists...
...brigadiers belong to a familiar breed in the Moslem world. Like Egypt's Nasser and Iraq's Kassem, they are ascetic young soldiers resentful of corrupt old ways, antagonistic to the West, and impatient for change. In early March the two, Abdel-Rahim Mohammed Kheir Shennan, 46, and Moheiddin Ahmed Abdullah, 43, with two battalions of troops, quietly surrounded Khartoum, captured Abboud's No. 2 man and held him for 24 hours. Fatherly General Abboud, after hearing the two soldiers' complaints, dismissed his No. 2 man and appointed both Shennan and Moheiddin to places...