Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...qualified his demand by waiting to see whether his Arab neighbors would make up the difference to keep his country going. One of the few remaining benefits London gets for its Jordanian subsidy is the right to an air base at Mafraq. Last week the R.A.F. base was under virtual siege, and drinking water, which local contractors refused to supply, had to be flown in from outside. If the British subsidy ends, and nobody else matches it, Jordan will have a hard time holding its place on the map-where it was put by Winston Churchill, genially creating a kingdom...
...Middle East turned to a second trouble spot: Syria. There, another Russian-backed Nasser has come to power: young, handsome bachelor Lieut. Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj. From the moment Syria proclaimed martial law after the Anglo-French and Israeli invasions of Egypt, President Shukri el Kuwatly has been the virtual prisoner of the army, and Colonel Serraj has established himself as Syria's strongman. Nominally the army's chief of intelligence, Colonel Serraj last month personally planned the sabotage of the Iraq Petroleum Co.'s pipeline to the Mediterranean, the key pro-Nasser play that...
Hammarskjold well knows that as their original fears diminish, each party to the cease-fire will be more inclined to haggle. But he can also count on their awareness that if the U.N. fails to convert the cease-fire into a stable truce, it is a virtual certainty that the Soviets will be roiling Middle Eastern waters again...
...Budapest last week LIFE brought unforgettable pictures that added up to the most eloquent report of Hungary's bloody fight against tyranny. They were the work of a virtual unknown: a gentle, pudgy free-lance photographer named John Sadovy. When LIFE released six of his pictures to the Associated Press, hundreds of newspapers across the U.S. snapped up the chance to run them. Sadovy's grim shots of fury, terror and the face of death were all the more remarkable for the cold cour age he needed to take them in the most dangerous kind of combat...
With Jordan's virtual loss, Britain saw her own position in the Arab world crumbling. Britain was bitter and disillusioned at the failure of her efforts to bring Nasser to heel. In the U.N., the Russians had just vetoed the latest effort to force a solution on Egypt. Both British and French were increasingly annoyed at U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. In their view, Dulles had precipitated Nasser's anger by his abrupt decision to end the Aswan dam deal. Furthermore, when Nasser countered by seizing the canal company, Dulles had talked the British and French...