Word: inhabitants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...amateurs in last week's U.S.G.A. Public Links championship were the pick of a fierce breed of golfers who inhabit the nation's 1,800 public courses; they carry their own clubs, fight for fairway rights, and have little or no time to worry about the more genteel aspects of what is sometimes regarded as a genteel game. In their zest for the title, some of last week's competitors just missed beating their opponents over the head with mashie niblicks...
...bluegrass country's jeweled horse farms. The white, red-trimmed barns with dormer windows are quaint and comfortable looking on the outside, elegant and modern inside, with chrome handles on stall doors, chrome saddle racks, cork-brick floors and pine-paneled walls. Although 55 persons and 140 horses inhabit the farm, the place is so carefully kept that it gives an impression of never having been used. But Willow Run has nothing on Calumet's production line...
Russell's answer must have been tolerant, because Lawrence promptly complained that it was. He then went on to say: "You must put off your . . . knowledge . . . you must live in my world . . . if I can't inhabit yours." To make sure, he went to stay a few days with Russell in Cambridge, rushed away in a state of "melancholic malaria." "I wish you would swear a sort of allegiance with me," he said. ". . . I have been much too Christian . . . I must drop all about God . . . You must drop all your democracy . . . There must be an aristocracy . . . a Ruler...
...conference went through the motions, disagreed and turned the problem over to the U.N. Assembly. Russia is willing to turn the colonies over to Italian trusteeship with or without U.N. supervision. So is the U.S., but it is hamstrung by a British promise to the Senusi tribes who inhabit part of Libya. In return for Senusi help during the war in the desert the British pledged that the Senusi would never again have to live under Italian rule. The U.S., undecided on whether to please the Italians or the British and Arabs, hopes the Assembly will decide to postpone...
...Pasha, spokesman for the Arab League, snarled: "If you prevent me from getting what I want, naturally I will prevent you from getting what you want." He meant oil. The Arabs could seriously interfere with the flow of 40% of the world's oil lying in areas they inhabit...