Word: biased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...near rebellion over the government's proclamation of Sinhala, the language spoken by the 6,750,000-strong Buddhist majority, as the official tongue of the land. Although the controversial "Sinhala Only" law was passed in 1956 under the administration of the late Prime Minister Solomon West Ridgeway Bias Bandaranaike, it was his energetic widow Sirimavo who first set out to enforce it early this year. In the Northern and Eastern provinces where the Tamils are concentrated, government offices were picketed, government vehicles blocked by Tamils lying down in the roadways before them. With local administration paralyzed, the Tamils...
...Frances Willis was the Foreign Service's first career woman to become an ambassador (to Switzerland in 1953), will find in Ceylon another woman who has risen high in a normally male domain: Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike, widow of the late Prime Minister Solomon West Ridgway Bias Bandaranaike, who has exhibited a mind of her own in leading Ceylon down the neutralist path...
...There has been a metamorphosis in the Congress and the people," says he with a touch of bitterness in his voice. "The strain of fiscal conservatism has become strong, perhaps because it has been so well nurtured during the last eight years. There is a deep strain of conservative bias built into the congressional system...
This is not, of course, a tocsin for bigoted anti-Catholicism (opposing Catholics more than necessary). But Americans would be unusually wise to recognize that mentioning religion, or measuring the anti-Catholic vote, is more than stirring bias. Commentary on religion can be sheer blind paranoia, but it can also be a realistic acknowledgement that belief matters in politics: less, perhaps than allegiance to Moscow, but quite a lot more than commitment to Barry Goldwater or Eleanor Roosevelt...
...praised the post-1953 economic policies of the Administration as having eliminated the inflationary bias from the U.S. economy...