Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time the sons of the Sultanate, sent abroad to Ceylon or Egypt for their education, began to chafe at the strict Sunni Moslem laws which kept them virtual prisoners at home once they reached the throne. When the old Sultan died in the 19305, the islanders decided to do away with hereditary rule and elect new Sultans by popular vote. The first elected Sultan promptly abdicated. His successor, Prime Minister Amir Didi, was perfectly willing to run the government, but he chafed at the travel restrictions. So did his nephew, Amin Didi, who was designated to succeed...
...pressure suit, says the Air Force, is nothing like those brief, becoming space suits worn in the comics. It will keep a man alive in a virtual vacuum for about ten minutes, but he breathes with difficulty. His hands, not fully pressurized, swell up with blue venous blood. His throat is another trouble spot: the medicos have not learned how to pressurize a throat without strangling its owner...
...special ten-man NCAA television committee which met secretly in New York Tuesday was in virtual agreement that the present limited TV football program has proved satisfactory, the CRIMSON learned from reliable sources yesterday...
...George's side. Toledo's Federal Judge Frank L. Kloeb looked at the record of George's case and refused to sentence him. When poor old George began to weep, the judge cried angrily that the bank had "invited" him to steal by keeping him "a virtual pauper for at least 22 years of his life . . . "The bank ought to be indicted here," the judge said. "I have no power over these men who were members of the board of directors of this bank, but if I had I would sentence them to read [Dickens' Christmas...
...held next Sunday. Superficially, the vote will decide whether Joho Hoffmann's Christian People's Party or the Social Democrats will dominate the Saar Landtag for the next few years; actually, it will demonstrate whether the 968,000 Saarlanders want to stay with France, under a virtual protectorate, or prefer to rejoin the fatherland from which they gladly separated in the graveyard days of 1947. Those in favor of Germany are at a legal disadvantage: only candidates known to approve the Francophile government will be allowed on the ballot. But German propagandists, dramatizing themselves as the "repressed German...