Word: abo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Getty in 1939 and gets $55,000 a year for life. Eleven other women shared in Getty's largesse, including a German countess, a French art dealer, Getty's Nicaraguan companion Rosabella Burch (she got $82,625 in Getty stock) and Lady Ursula d'Abo, a merry London widow who acted as hostess at his parties ($165,250 in stock). The big winner, with $826,250 in stock plus $1,167 a month, was Penelope Ann Kitson, 53, a decorator who had known Getty since the 1950s but refused to marry him, said her ex-husband, because...
...realize that many Americans revere the shortened word form, but unfortunately the word "Abo," referring to Australia's Aboriginal Embassy [March 13], is received by Australian aborigines with about the same amount of enthusiasm as the word nigger or coon by Negro people...
Since Australia's 150,000 aborigines constitute only about 1% of the country's population, they have never had much clout in Australian politics. Last December, however, militant young "Abos," calling themselves "black Australians," staged a violent demonstration in Brisbane. For the past month, to dramatize their case for land rights, they have been operating an eleven-tent "Abo Embassy" across from Parliament House in Canberra. "We are tired of hanging around the white man's door waiting for crumbs," cried Abo Journalist John Newfong. The Abos' next target: Interior Minister Ralph Hunt, whom they hope...
This week the Australian Cabinet will decide whether to seek the power to remove the Abo Embassy from the nearby lawn. If the Abos refuse to go away peacefully, the man who will have to decide whether to remove them by force will be none other than Interior Minister Hunt...