Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Back home," says Cafe Filho, "I got fine offers from companies seeking congressional favors or government contracts. I did not think it was right to accept...
...British Crown won him a knighthood in 1907, Banda had long steered a perilous course through the tricky tides of Asian politics. He was raised a Christian and educated at Oxford, where his debating skill earned him the admiration of his English classmate, Anthony Eden. But once back home, Banda renounced Christianity in favor of Buddhism, threw off Western dress in favor of long white sarongs, and plunged into the movement that was to bring Ceylon independence within the Commonwealth in 1948. In 1951 he set up his own Marxist Ceylon Freedom Party. Five years later he was, as Eden...
...Back There!" Barred from following the official party into a cornfield reserved for Khrushchev's inspection, reporters and photographers went into an encircling movement through the tall corn, materialized suddenly under the noses of Garst and visitors. "Get back! Get back there!" bellowed Garst, surprised and angry. "Bring those horses in here; ride 'em down." he commanded a mounted troop of Greene County Pleasure Riders. "Get back there or I'll kick you out. even if your name is Harrison Salisbury." he threatened, and as good as his word, he planted a sturdy Garst brogan...
Thrilled but undazzled, Columnist Landers-who is the wife of Ballpoint Pen Executive Jules Lederer-took a Berlitz cram course in Russian, then flew off to see what makes Reds red-eyed. After three weeks she came back with a stack of well-filled notebooks, turned out a dozen columns on her impressions of Russia ("Everybody needed a bath and a haircut"; "Russians put a premium on brains"; "a warm, affectionate people"). Through all her copy ran familiar Landers material: "Ivan is worried about Irena's supervisor at the furniture factory. He has heard rumors-and she has been...
...satellite, where it first appeared in the Hungarian newspaper Népszabadsdg (People's Freedom). Taken with the massive, almost Western-style, gaudy coverage of the Khrushchev tour, the cartoon was enough to set observers wondering. After such unexpected treats, would the Russian reader want to go back to the oldtime, unadorned propaganda diet...