Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Permitted to return from exile in 1931, Haya stumped the country as the new party's presidential candidate, fired the peasants and workers into unprecedented rallies. The landowning aristocracy made sure the presidency went to an army colonel, who jailed Haya and issued a chilling order: "I want to...
Living Underground. The next 13 years Haya spent in prison or underground. In 1945, then (and now) President Manuel Prado, a banker, legalized APRA, but under a new name. Out of hiding, Haya spoke before 175,000: "We aspire to create an authentic social justice, not one that comes from...
Four years ago the still-outlawed Apristas made another deal with Banker Prado, and one that looked as if it would stick. In return for election support, Prado legalized the party. In another display of fair-mindedness, Prado appointed the loudest critic of his inflationary policies, Newspaper Publisher Pedro Beltr...
TWO FOR THE PRIZE OF ONE, headlined the Washington Post-and so it was when Dr. Donald Glaser, 34, this year's Nobel laureate in physics, married Ruth Louise ("Bonnie") Thompson, 23, a University of California math major. First thrown together in a U.C. radiation lab, where he was...
After six years of house arrest in a Cairo suburb, Major General Mohammed Naguib, original "strongman" of Egypt's 1952 revolution against King Farouk, was once again at liberty. Naguib, who proved too good to be strong, was first slapped into confinement when he showed signs of developing mass...