Word: prevailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Syria has a Parliament of 144 Deputies, mostly landlords and sheiks, with the nationalists and leftist extremists numbering only 18, but at least 30 of the others have fled the country or are in jail, and the rest are divided and terrified. The 18 prevail, working hand in hand with the soldiers, who may not be very good in battle, but are so far unbeatable in domestic intrigue...
...spinster, a philosopher among the Sydney Philistines. She loves Voss enough to know the real nature of his quest and that she is, in spirit, "the sole survivor" of his doomed expedition. Amid the crudity of a still colonial society, the quality of a Laura Trevelyan will prevail, White seems...
...American policy," said Secretary of State John Foster Dulles last week, "is conducted on the assumption, as a working hypothesis, that free governments in the long run are going to prevail, and despotic governments in the long run are going to go under." Dulles was answering a question at his weekly news conference, and even as he was talking, Russia's Nikita Khrushchev was maneuvering and striking against the Stalinists in one of the great upheavals of Kremlin history (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Passed (78-0) a $3.6 billion Agricultural Department appropriation, which restored the $500 million soil-bank program slashed out by the House at the height of its economy mood. The bill goes to a Senate-House conference where the Senate version is expected to prevail...
...Snopeses-the twins, Bilbo and Vardaman Snopes, Wallstreet Panic Snopes, Admiral Dewey Snopes, Byron and Virgil Snopes and Montgomery Ward Snopes. (The reader is grateful for an occasional mnemonic rhyme, e.g., one Snopes is called Eck, "the one with the broken neck.") Malignant, hated, despised, physically maladroit, the Snopeses prevail over better men by their rapacity and lack of pride or shame. They are like monkeys on the backs of men, and they move to "the blind glare of the blind money...