Word: ah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This feeling is not dispelled by the knowledge that everyone else gets the same treatment. As I left, a large lady swept past me, genuflected, kissed the bishop's ring, and looked up adoringly. Sheen broke into a great smile with, 'Ah, mademoiselle, enchante de vous revoir.' My time was up, but the impression remained. It just seems that everyone is important, everyone feels good...
...India with a fast week of seeing slums and soldiery, of meeting voluble Moslem dignitaries and veiled Moslem women in the Pakistan cities of Karachi, Lahore and Peshawar. Her tour has not been without moments of conflict. Her visit to Pakistan aggravated a female feud between Begum Lia-quat AH Khan, widow of Pakistan's late Prime Minister, and Miss Fatima Jinnah, sister of Founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah. The Begum had invited Mrs. Roosevelt to Pakistan. Outflanked, Miss Fatima stonily boycotted the famous guest and ordered the Pakistani Girl Scouts, whom she heads, to boycott her too. Mrs. Roosevelt...
...scarlet scene: human rubble on the decks, the scuppers running with gore, the Spaniards in command. Brave Lieut. Bush, bleeding from nine wounds, lay hidden after the melee behind a cannon's hulk. "What would England say?" he asked himself bitterly. "What would the navy say?" Ah God, if only Hornblower had been there...
...second step is a clear recognition that West Africa nationalism is here to stay. To the Gold Coast's cheering, native parliament went word that the White Queen across the seas had appointed history's first African Prime Minister: Dr. Kwame Nkrumah (pronounced nah-croom-ah). A year ago, when Britain gave the Gold Coast its first constitution, troublemaking Socialist Lawyer Nkrumah, a dedicated anticolonialist, became "Leader of Government Business," with responsibilities for health, education and commerce. Old colonial hands forecast bloody revolution, but Nkrumah, in office, cooperated with Britain to make the constitution work...
...Budapest general school, the great Comrade himself dropped in to shed the radiance of his example on the pupils. One little girl complained that she did not like gymnastics. Ah, said Rakosi, there was a time when he, too, had thought athletics unimportant, but he had learned better. Why, once, in the press of political business, he remembered, he had had to swim right across the Danube...