Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said: "Is not this Bath-Sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?" . . . And it came to pass in the morning that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah . . . saying: "Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten...
From the Balcony. Narriman Sadek, 16, daughter of a civil servant, has been betrothed for the past five years to Zaki Hachem, 27, a Harvard-trained economic aide to the U.N. Secretariat. Narriman and Zaki had set their wedding day for Dec. 8, and a few days before, they went shopping for a ring at the Cairo store of Ahmed Nagib Pasha. Ahmed, who in his spare time helps out Farouk with new telephone numbers, told the young couple to come back next day. His Majesty hustled down to size up Ahmed's find from a concealed balcony. Narriman...
...Sudara, sudara, brothers," said Soekarno. "Be quiet. Thanks to God Almighty, today after four years I have again set foot on the earth of Jakarta. Four years was not a moment, it was four times three hundred and sixty-five days...
...street. Inside headquarters, beneath a gigantic portrait of Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung, more than a score of Hong Kong labor leaders smoked, drank endless cups of green tea and offered their sympathy to the locked-out trolley employees. A headline in the pro-Communist Ta Rung Pao set the tone. It read: "Friendly Love Will Support the Tramway Workers." Outside, restless crowds chanted a Communist song to the tune of "John Brown's Body...
...black-marketeers. In the confusion that followed liberation, they had convinced a couple of high military men that they were heroes. Armed with recommendations from the gullible generals, and with other testimonial papers bearing the forged signatures of real heroes killed by the Germans, Jackals Lange and Salve set themselves up in business. By 1947 the word was around in certain circles that very authentic-looking Resistance papers could be bought from them at 400,000 to 600,000 francs a set...