Word: cancelation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anti-British campaign. One paper accused Britain of fomenting labor unrest, another charged it had plotted the death of Dag Hammarskjold. The Accra Evening News, angry at the proposed November visit of Queen Elizabeth (''the head of a bloated kingdom"), called on the government to cancel the invitation. But Nkrumah is still unwilling to give up his position in the Commonwealth. In London. Ghana's Acting High Commissioner Kwesi Armah called a press conference to erase any thoughts that the Queen would be unwelcome. Said he: "A hilarious and dignified welcome awaits the Queen and Prince Philip...
Last month, at the request of President Kennedy, Goldberg intervened in the complex, personality-ridden battle between the musicians and management of the Metropolitan Opera that had led General Manager Rudolf Bing to throw up his hands and cancel the 1961-62 season. Both sides agreed to go on with the season and leave their differences up to an arbitrator-but only if the arbitrator was Goldberg...
...still persisted in spots: the conservative Nihon Keizai Shimbun wistfully editorialized that "our fondest hope is for the U.S. to reconsider its decision on resumption, and by so doing compel Russia to follow suit." But even Zengakuren, the extreme leftist student organization whose screaming mobs forced President Eisenhower to cancel his trip to Japan a year ago, turned about and labeled the Russian decision "Stalinist power diplomacy," and began gathering a nationwide petition of protest signatures to deliver to the Russian embassy...
...forced to drop its Record-of-the-Month recordings with the Met, causing -the musicians to lose $1,000 a year apiece.) The union itself, said orchestra members, stood "aghast" at the committee's proposals. But most of the musicians seemed convinced that management would capitulate rather than cancel the season and jeopardize its eagerly awaited 1964 move to a new opera house in Lincoln Center...
...which will probably wind up at Harvard) to his fourth wife. "I repose complete confidence in my beloved wife Mary," it continued, "to provide for [my three children by previous marriages] according to written instructions I have given her." Literary style of the testament: a stilted legalese ("I hereby cancel, annul and revoke . . ."), presumably cribbed from previous wills and marred by the misspelling, "siezed...