Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What was going on was an unparalleled historic phenomenon which some in Britain, greatest of the West's colonial powers, like to call "creative abdication"'(to the unconcealed horror of diehard imperialists, who see only retreat). In places where British governments and proconsuls had bungled, "creative abdication" was a euphemism for a hasty cutting of losses. But in other places it represented a conscientious attempt to surrender an outdated authority to win a new relationship more valued because it was volunteered. One way or another in the twelve years since World War II-years during which Russia enslaved...
Cyprus: Even in this most rebellious of British possessions there was a glimmer of progress. Last week EOKA, the Greek Cypriot underground, offered to call off its two-year-old campaign of terrorism if Britain would free Archbishop Makarios, exiled spiritual and political leader of Cyprus' Greek population. In London Prime Minister Macmillan hastily called a special Cabinet meeting to consider this face-saving way out. Britain until now has insisted that Makarios himself must formally denounce EOKA terrorism...
Cuba for a few hours when the airport was closed, flooded in; roulette wheels spun in the casinos, saucy chippies flirted in the nightspots. But at heart Cubans were sickened, and longed for what .they call-with no clear concept of what it might be-"the solution...
...Lose. The personal timetable with which Portago has charted his course to the world's championship does not necessarily call for a Sebring victory this year. But the leading point-winners on the international circuit-Argentina's Juan Fangio and Britain's Stirling Moss-will both be driving Maseratis (TIME, Feb. 18), and Portago is inclined to think that the Maserati is too fragile to win. "There's no predicting when a silly thing will stop a driver just as quickly as a major breakdown," says he. A stark example of how "a silly thing"-gear...
...entire operation from opening the chest to putting the last stitches in it-"skin to skin," as surgeons call it-had taken 3½ hours. After five weeks the patient went back to work. His heart no longer pounds unbearably; he can be as active as most...