Word: ben
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worn at ordinary, not Claghorn, length, and he shuns the string tie and the diamond stickpin. Taciturn and humorless, he has neither the gift nor the inclination for the vivid rhetorical attacks on opponents that were the stock in trade of such old masters as South Carolina's Ben Tillman, who won the voters' hearts by announcing his determination to go to Washington and plunge a pitchfork into the rump of President Grover Cleveland. Where Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo embarrassed respectable Southerners with personal peccadilloes, ranging from a particularly messy divorce to brazen bribe-taking, Eastland...
...from abroad, and named names: "The country which is the center of this spider's web is Egypt." A rebel lieutenant captured in Algeria had admitted to interrogators that all war operations in Algeria are directed by a committee of Algerian nationalists in Cairo headed by one Mohammed ben Bella. Soustelle flourished a copy of orders drawn up in Cairo by Ben Bella directing the assassination of any Algerian who tried to negotiate with the French. The document was headed: "Done with the Approval of Big Brother." Who was Big Brother? "All fellagha to whom we have put this...
...Mohammed ben Bella, military chief for Algeria, is a big, good-looking ex-sergeant of the French army. The French believe he transmits his orders by radio to fighters in the Aures and Kabylie Mountains. Political chief for Algeria is 43-year-old Mohammed Khidir, 43, onetime French Deputy who got disgusted in 1946 and went underground, emerging only long enough to help Ben Bella rob the Oran post office of 3,000,000 francs. In both Morocco and Tunisia, Cairo's conspirators have been set back by the victory of the moderates, whom they seem to resent...
Tunisia is represented in Cairo by Salah ben Youssef, exiled leader of the extremist wing of the Neo-Destour, who hates his fellow Party Leader Habib Bourguiba for accepting "interdependence" with France. Last week France granted Tunisia independence, and next week Tunisia will hold its first election. But in Tunisia's south ern mountains Salah ben Youssef's supporters flared into revived rebellion...
Saturday afternoon, Jim Bacon shovelled his car out of the snow in Beverly, Mass., raced to Hemenway Gymnasium, and proceeded to give Ben Heckscher, number one man on the varsity, his toughest match of the year...