Word: bung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bung (Brother) made his initial blunder when he decided not to reopen Indonesia's $3,000,000 pavilion at the fair because of "the open support given by the U.S. to the neocolonialist project of Malaysia." Moses immediately threatened to confiscate the place-particularly since the Indonesians still owe him some $250,000 to cover demolition costs when the fair ends. Cagily, the Indonesians stalled Moses by hinting that they were trying to get a New York entrepreneur to run the pavilion for them until the demolition money was raised. Meanwhile, they began hauling out of the pavilion everything...
...Indonesians seemed hurt by the whole thing, pointed out that Moses' wrathful action came just when Special Presidential Envoy Ellsworth Bunker was in Djakarta to see about tempering Sukarno's anti-American binge. The fact is that nobody really expects Bunker to budge the Bung with his diplomatic chitchat. Maybe there's something to be said for the Mosaic method...
Every Great Man has one Great Moment in life. For Indonesia's President Sukarno, it may well have come at 10:30 one sticky night last week in Djakarta's sports stadium. There, before thousands of cheering admirers, Bung drew himself up to his full height (5 ft. 4 in.), pointed a finger toward the sky, and announced his country's withdrawal from the United Nations...
...Geneva during his recent European tour, Indonesia's President Sukarno slipped into an out-of-the-way cinema for an evening's relaxation after a hard day of negotiations with pretty shopgirls and Swiss arms manufacturers. No doubt the "Bung" (Brother), an old movie buff, needed a bit of tranquilizing, but the feature film proved to be The Fall of the Roman Empire. In light of what has been happening in Indonesia of late, it must have scanned like a sneak preview...
...that since his last visit to Sukarno-land two years ago, the swarms of scrawny, barefoot children had grown thinner and hungrier and the tens of thousands of beggars blocking the streets and sidewalks more pitiful and insistent in this the 19th year of the era of the affable Bung...