Word: side
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...western side of the Sinai Peninsula last week, Egypt's King Farouk, 29, who recently divorced Farida ("Peerless"), his queen of eleven years, was behaving remarkably like David. Farouk was getting ready to marry again. There are several non-synoptic versions of how this came to pass, and the most reliable account is this...
...other side of the world, from Jakarta (the new Indonesian name for Batavia) TIME Correspondent Robert Doyle cabled...
...crowd dispersed quickly, leaving behind only a few score natives stretched out from heat prostration and a few hundred others happily and symbolically splashing their feet in a lily pool of the palace grounds. Until independence, the lily pool had always been emphatically on the other side of the fence for Indonesians...
...borders of Hong Kong last fall, an apprehensive British administration had wondered when the Reds would try to take Hong Kong itself.. Last week, the five-starred flag of Soviet China fluttered ominously in Hong Kong, but the Red army was still on the other side of the border'. How long they would stay there would depend in large measure on the wisdom Hong Kong's rulers displayed in the colony's latest labor crisis...
...week's end, Hong Kong's colonial government announced that it had assumed sweeping emergency powers, including the right to requisition manpower, bar strikes and lockouts. This may have pleased Hong Kong's employers, but the chances were that it pleased the Communists on the other side of the border even more...