Word: appears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reason for the crowd's reserve was obvious. De Gaulle was the first French Premier to dare even to appear in Madagascar in the past decade. The island's 5,000,000 inhabitants (who are divided into 20 distinct ethnic groups, but go by the collective name of "Malagasy") have not forgotten the savagery with which French troops put down the Madagascar revolt of 1947.* The political choice that De Gaulle offered Madagascar and the territories of French Equatorial Africa and French West Africa was 1) self-government within a federation (with foreign affairs, defense and economic policy...
Lead & Solidarity. The all-out terror lasted two days. The government seemed to abdicate. No administration wants to appear anti-working class. Finally, a platoon of troops and cops ordered by Governor Ernesto P. Uruchurtu drove the marauders back to their campuses...
...paper that accused him of advocating violent revolution to the treason trial of Klaus Fuchs and the sensational cases of the "Chalk Pit Murder" and the "Vampire," he soon became known as the "Tiger." Green young barristers would sit up all night polishing their briefs before daring to appear before him in the morning and risk hearing him say, "Let's skip the rest and hear your last point, please." Even rich and famous lawyers, their names trailed by the initials of knighthood and honor, knew what it was like to be put in their place by Goddard...
...York accountant charged Yates with improper stock deals and with running Republic "as though it were a private business.'' Supporting item in the complaint: for years Yates has been casting his wife, aging (37) Vera Ralston, possibly one of the most wooden actresses ever to appear on a screen, in a series of money-losing movies (Lady and the Monster, Belle Le Grand...
...aides are taking no chances. In Algeria the army is already hard at work on psychologically preparing the voters. ("To condition the Moslem populace, one has to create a De Gaulle myth," declares a recently published directive of the south Algerian military zone. "The picture of the general must appear everywhere...