Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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"Do let's try to get up to date on the U.S. . . . We are dealing with a highly sophisticated people, and it's time we got rid of our folk-image of the American as a boob from Hicksville with a cigar in his face, a camera round...
"A report to the State Department recently stated that 47% of the British people believe we should not commit ourselves to either America or Russia. My response to this is: Are we out of our tiny island minds? America has bailed out the free world since the war with billions...
When he nationalized his country's press last May. U.A.R. President Gamal Abdel Nasser showed special tolerance for a pair of his oldest supporters-Cairo's weighty (476 lbs. between them) publishing twins, Mustafa and Ali Amin, 47. Though they were formally stripped of their ownership of Cairo...
The Cardinal Sin. The Amin brothers' sin was not sedition but success. Like every other Cairo paper, Akhbar dutifully printed interminable Nasser speeches and daily photos of the dictator's dazzling grin. But it also continued to be the racy, mischievous paper that Cairo readers (except the puritanical...
A Slight Misunderstanding. Catching wind of Shaker's maneuvers, the Amins coldly passed word that Akhbar's once fat profits had dwindled to the vanishing point since Nasser's nationalization. There would be no raise, they said. Enraged at this "reneging," a crowd of infuriated typesetters pursued...