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...good-will tour abroad last spring, he left the prince in charge of the Council of the Throne. Day after day the royal Mercury would roar through the streets of Amman. Wherever he went, Mohammed demanded full honors; he has been known to seize bodily those who failed to applaud him and turn them over to Bedouin guards demanding that they be flogged. Once, when a limousine with diplomatic license plates was slow getting out of his way, he jumped out of his own car and began shrieking abuse at the offender. But that time Mohammed was forced to apologize...
...obstinate Foster Dulles." The paper denounced President Eisenhower for having "embraced the butcher Franco" on his recent trip to Spain. Philip Bonsai, the U.S.'s popular Ambassador to Cuba, was a different problem: Cubans have lately been cheering him in the newsreels. "How debased are those who applaud Bonsai!" said Revolución. "What an inconceivable alliance-Bonsai, Lojendio, the traitors, the war criminals, the big landowners and the thieves...
...speak the truth to you here, Comrades Kunaev and Belyaev, they .will applaud you in Kazakhstan, and you will tell them there was a meeting of the Central Committee and everything went off fine. Actually, things are bad, very...
...been flung, Eleanor Roosevelt rose up like teacher reproving a wayward elderly schoolboy. "He doesn't like certain kinds of liberals," she said. "I welcome every kind of liberal . . . Perhaps we have something to learn from liberals that are younger." Flushing to his hairline, Truman managed to applaud politely. But, as usual, he had the last hot word. Next day before he flew back home to Missouri, Truman grandly assured attendant reporters that "there isn't any split. There aren't any liberals in the Democratic Party; they're all Democrats." Then, with magnificent illogic...
Last year the University agreed to accept loan monies offered under the NDEA and to administer the required oath to students requesting loans, in order to applaud and encourage "the high motives which prompted Congress to pass the ... Act." But President Pusey, in a letter supporting Senator Kennedy's bill to abolish the oath requirement, also called the oath "rude and unworthy of Congress," "a direct personal affront" to the colleges, and urged that Kennedy's committee recommend the "elimination of this odious section...