Word: refurbishment
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Mecca, Islam's holiest city, until they were forced out in the early 1920s by the Saud family. At the time of the Saudi takeover, the Grand Sherif of Mecca was Hussein, great-grandfather of the boy Kings. The Sherif thought he had found a way to refurbish the Hashemite image. He volunteered the family's services to the British in their World War 1 battles with the Ottoman empire, which was allied with Germany. In return, the Hashemites were to receive large swatches of territory, including Syria...
...intelligence community describes the recent activity as "wriggles" in Cuba. The wriggles appear to date from Soviet Defense Minister Andrei Grechko's trip to Havana last fall and a return visit to Moscow by Fidel Castro's brother Raul last spring. The Soviets agreed to refurbish the Cuban military with everything from new knapsacks to improved, longer-range SA-2 missiles, similar to the ones emplaced in Egypt. Cuba now has 24 SA-2 sites, each with six missiles. In addition, Moscow has upgraded Fidel Castro's air force by supplying a 25-plane squadron...
...boys in the block who have once fought it out often become the fastest of friends-and there are some very big comrades in the bloc with whom Vietnam would rather not get into a fight-that the united Vietnamese will somehow be able a decade hence to refurbish their picture of our George Washington and our other political forefathers and come again also to respect us, the present-day custodians of their political vision of the Age of Enlightenment. May they and the whole world see in us again, after our ordeals of racial and generational cleavage...