Word: almost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Muffled by censorship and tight military control, the noises coming out of Iraq last week nonetheless sounded like the laborings of an untended boiler approaching the point of explosion. Iraq's newspapers triumphantly reported the capture of some of the men who had almost succeeded in killing Premier Abdul Karim Kassem (TIME, Oct. 19)-but gave no names. Scarcely had these good tidings been announced when Radio Baghdad trumpeted that another assassination plot had been uncovered-but gave no details...
...week's end, in a naked bid for the support of the New Kenya Party, the government announced that henceforth African land boards would no longer be allowed to bar land sales to white farmers on racial grounds. And if it chose, the government could almost certainly push its new plan for the Highlands through Kenya's Legislative Council. But in the process, it might well increase rather than diminish the tension between Kenya's races. Departing Kenya Governor Sir Evelyn Baring, mused the London Times, had handed to his successor, Sir Patrick Renison, "a baton . . . that...
...Almost without exception, responsible Western economists recognize that to deny that Red China is growing economically would be selfdelusion. At a fearful price in oppression and human suffering, the Chinese Communists have, as Chou En-lai claims, made "earthshaking changes" in the Chinese economy in the last decade. But faced with the phantasmagoric nonsense emerging from Peking last week, even those Westerners most ready to be impressed by Chinese Communist accomplishments could do nothing but shrug: "Here we go again...
Under a 1947 agreement, long denounced as unfair by Filipinos, the U.S. had acquired gg-year leases on 23 Philippine bases, and the U.S. Navy was running the town of Olongapo (pop. 60,000) almost like a unit of its own Pacific Fleet (TIME, July 20). Under the new terms negotiated by Bohlen and Filipino Foreign Secretary Felixberto Serrano, the U.S. has now agreed...
...despite all the stereotyping, the TV Eye can be topnotch entertainment. He is what sometime Saturday Review Critic John Paterson called "every man's romantic conception of himself: the glorification of toughness, irreverence, and a sense of decency almost too confused to show itself." The Private Eye is the ordinary citizen "become suddenly, magically aggressive, become purified by righteous and legitimate anger-and become, at last, devastatingly effective." Properly presented, he is as much a part of American legend as the super-cowboy, just as surely escapes the conventional, rule-ridden world by taking the law into...