Word: shiploads
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Example : warehouses full of priceless documents, art and archaeological objects, which the Nationalists brought by the shipload in 1949. Without men or money to do the job, little of this treasure has even been catalogued...
...underprivileged place in society, in which his residence, travel, employment-even his drink-can be determined by government officials. The editor of the National Party's pro-Nazi Die Transvaler during World War II, Verwoerd once fought a humanitarian scheme to provide haven in South Africa for a shipload of Jewish refugees from Germany, likes to boast that none of his seven children were ever bathed or put to bed by a black servant. His main goal is to make South Africa a republic. He plans to hold a plebiscite on the issue this year, kicked off the campaign...
...appeared that Yemen's loose, 18-month-old "federation" with Nasser's United Arab States had at last begun to undermine the foundations of the Imam's medieval theocracy. But they were reckoning without the Imam. Bustling back to his Red Sea domain with a shipload of wives and concubines, the Sword of Islam flashed commandingly. "I swear by Allah." he proclaimed from his palace balcony in the sun-charred seaport of Hodeida. "that I shall behead every black and every white whenever a complaint is lodged. There have been misdeeds-by hooligans and vainglorious fools...
Thus quietly and without ceremony did the final shipload of 1,126 U.S. Army men, last of the 10,000 American troops brought to the Middle East last July, leave Lebanese soil last week. They left a wearied Beirut at last in some semblance of peace: movies reopened last week, and the curfew was eased. In a sense, U.S. troops sneaked out of town-but for a good reason. The embarkation timetable was deliberately kept secret in memory of the way Arab nationalist bravos in Egypt, when the withdrawing Anglo-French forces were reduced to a rearguard, began sniping...
...glassmakers imported alkali from Spain and the Near East, pebbles of quartz from the River Ticino near Milan, and manganese, the "glassmakers' soap," which turned their glass to near crystal transparency. They were accurately imitating jewels in glass and turning out beads, tumblers and chalices by the shipload...