Word: best
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tunisians, offended by the "bellicose tone" of the note, refused to accept it. Next day the Tunisian government declared: "It is inexact that the Algerian elements withdrew into Tunisia with French prisoners." (Best guess as to the truth: the four Frenchmen were whisked into Tunisia for a day or so, then shipped back to a rebel base in Algeria...
...tough talk, hard-driving little Habib Bourguiba has done his best to keep Tunisia on good terms with France, a month ago even suggested a formal alliance between the two countries. His tiny army is no match for the hard-bitten Algerian forces that have infiltrated Tunisia, and the sympathies of the Tunisian peoples are with the Algerian rebels. If Gaillard brought too much pressure to bear on Tunisia, there was a real danger that Bourguiba might be replaced by someone fanatically hostile not only to France but to the entire West...
...such an act adultery? A sin, or a triumph of science? Last week these questions were exercising the best legal, religious and journalistic minds of Britain. Hearing MacLennan's suit, Lord Wheatley, a Roman Catholic judge of Scotland's Court of Session, listened to the argument of MacLennan's lawyer that the real essence of adultery is not how it is accomplished, but "the surrender of a woman's reproductive organs to another man." Commented Lord Wheatley: "Of course, it is not another man, but a test tube. She does not know...
...major strains on the Sudan come from outside. Egypt would welcome a chance to annex the country, is meanwhile trying to force it into a Nasser-styled policy of neutrality. The Soviet Union, which recognizes that the Sudan is a gateway to the African continent, has tried its best blandishments. That neither has succeeded is largely due to tough-minded Premier Abdullah Khalil...
...Begging Bowls. As an administrator, Khalil is among Africa's best. His budgets are balanced, and any surplus has been applied to development projects. Visiting Western moneymen have been impressed by Khalil's insistence on a pay-as-you-go approach to loans, his refusal to ask for more aid than the nation can repay. "The Sudanese," said one admiring U.S. official, "are not holding out any begging bowls...