Word: aridity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kenyatta was not yet a free man. From his cell near the Sudan border, he and five Mau Mau extremists were hustled under close guard to the tiny government outpost of Lodwar. There, in the empty, arid northern frontier district, 216 miles from the nearest town, Kenyatta will live in exile in two rooms, cooking his own government-supplied food. He may roam the local area, but must report daily to the district commissioner and must remain inside his quarters from sunset to dawn. He may receive out-of-town visitors only with permission of the Nairobi government. He will...
...skillfully did Lyndon Johnson handle his fight for his own version of Rule XXII that the final 72-22 vote left only the extreme diehards of both the liberal and Southern sides in opposition. Thus such liberals as New York Republican Jacob Javits arid Illinois Democrat Paul Douglas found themselves isolated with such bitter-end Southerners as South Carolina's Strom Thurmond and Mississippi's James Eastland...
...Guns Speak. There was also contact of another sort. At De Gaulle's orders the French army has begun to penetrate in force the arid "forbidden zones" of Algeria where the F.L.N. bases its units. Fortnight ago 12,000 French troops, supported by artillery and rocket-carrying fighter planes, surrounded and wiped out two companies of rebel troops. In one week the French claimed to have killed a total of 672 rebels at a cost of 46 French dead...
...great searching of souls and scratching of navels, the threat, the portentous horror, indeed, the phantasmagorical folly of appeasement, of a Munich, if you please, in the face of great decisions which may determine the future of the entire Arabian peninsula, perhaps of the whole Western World, centering in arid Iraq, cradle of civilization, womb of nationalism, cocoon of Communism's conspiratorial caprices, where the stupendous clash of incompatible ideologies generates a maelstrom of incredible tautological complexity which, if only time would allow, I would be delighted to analyze down to the most delicate detail, but with the grader...
Your Dec. 22 cover picture is a real charmer arid a real pleasure to behold; moreover, it did justice (as did the article) to the enchanting Miyoshi Umeki and Pat Suzuki. DEBORA H. SNYDER Los Angeles...