Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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High and dry on the sun-blasted northeastern horn of Africa hangs a backward, poverty-stricken strip of land inhabited by leopards, crocodiles and some 1,300,000 camel-and goat-herding nomads. Back in the19th century after the British, French and Italians helped themselves in imperial fashion to slices of the coast bordering Ethiopia, this desert patch was known as Italian Somaliland. In Mussolini's heyday it became a bridgehead for his conquest of Italian East Africa. Now after years of somnolence, it is back in the news-once again as a trouble spot. The Italians, who kept...
...leader with a taste for loud ties but moderate policies, Issa prodded the Italians into their promise of early independence. But then Haji Mohammed Hussein, an oldtime nationalist rabble-rouser whose oratory once made Somalis whip off their scarves in frenzy and fling them into the air, arrived back in Mogadiscio from four years' self-imposed exile as one of Nasser's Cairo broadcasters. Almost at once Haji Mohammed formed a Greater Somali League to rival Issa's Somali Youth League, and charged that Issa favored a Little Somalia, confined to Italian Somaliland, because he feared...
...glowing plasma. The newly discovered Van Allen radiation belt, which surrounds the earth and stands as a threat to space-voyaging man. is a thin but dangerous plasma. The fireballs of nuclear explosions are made of plasma; so are electric arcs. When the warhead of a missile slams back into the atmosphere, it heats the air around it to 18.000° and turns it into an electrically charged plasma...
...Under orders from President Eisenhower not to spill the beans of Ike's private talks with Macmillan, Hagerty fell back on trivia, soon began sounding like a parody of himself. A sample Hagerty announcement: "I have one bit of hard news. Mr. Berding∣State Department press officer∣ was asked this morning if the President was sleeping in a four-poster bed, and the answer is yes, and also if he had ever slept before in a four-poster bed, and the answer is also...
...standing up to the daily hammering by the press had won the grudging admiration of many British newsmen. The night before Eisenhower left, one hitherto critical Fleet Streeter declared: "We have learned to regard you here as a friend and helper." Then he added: "Should the President come back again, we shall try to ask you questions such as 'Will he be having haggis for lunch?' " Deadpanned Jim' Hagerty: "Thank you very much. I appreciate...