Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final moments of bargaining, the British did not get quite all they hoped for. Knowing how much his own back-bench Tories hate Nasser, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan had pressed hard to get Nasser first to release two Britons jailed as spies at the time of the Suez affair. In the end, Macmillan decided that he could not hold out for a side matter...
Like many another wealthy man, the Nizam keeps his billions because he is careful of his pennies. He decreed that the wedding was to be a simple family affair and did not illuminate the walls of his palace with the multicolored electric lights that are a feature even of middle class Indian weddings. The bridegroom, Nawab Mahmood Jung, who comes of an aristocratic Hyderabad family that ranks just below the Nizam, drove up to the palace in a 100-car motorcade, wearing a cloth-of-gold coat and a sun-sparkling necklace of diamonds and emeralds. His face was delicately...
...executions, the State Department held to a policy of nonintervention. Asst. Secretary of State Roy Rubottom, who is in charge of Latin-American affairs, declared, "We are not going to intervene in what is essentially Cuba's affair...
Castro's landing had been a comical affair, and the Times gleefully described it as such. It told in pointed detail how Batista had received intelligence of the landing, and disposed what must have been a large part of his navy to watch for the rebel ships. When Castro finally appeared, he was in a single motor boat, towing a barge, and flying a Mexican flag. A government coast guard cutter closed in, and the rebels, trying to escape, promptly ran aground on the shore. At this point a government fighter plane appeared and strafed the barge, so that Castro...
Monro added that, as far as he knew, the power to call for a new election rested with the Council and its president, Leland, thus putting Leland in a key position on both sides of the affair...