Word: ceded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like Flies. Arriving last week in West Bengal's Cede station, Mrs. Nipubala Nag, a Hindu from Pakistan, dabbed tears from her eyes as she told of a Moslem mob that burst in on terrified Hindu mill workers in Dacca, East Pakistan's capital, with daggers, axes and steel bars. Among the dead were her husband and 19-year-old son. At Jessore, grey-bearded, shirtless Osman Ghani talked wistfully of his home and stationery shop in Calcutta, both burned to the ground by Hindu mobs. After weeks in an Indian relief camp, Ghani, his wife and three...
...would be Sen. Hubert Humphrey. Humphrey wants the nomination. He has solid support from labor (although labor has not often proved to be a solid political force). But Humphrey might be too valuable to Johnson in the Senate. Sen. Mansfield, called by some "his own worst critic," reportedly will cede the Majority Leadership to Humphrey in the next Congress. Paradoxically, then, if Humphrey is outstanding in handling the civil rights bill he could impair his own chances to be vice-President...
Americans have become so gutless and cowardly that if Florida were invaded from Cuba and Texas from Mexico, we would probably call a 14-nation parley and cede the Southern states to them as long as they didn't cross the Mason-Dixon line...
...notable exception: the late Ernest Bevin, one of whose pithier diplomatic exchanges was recounted in London last week by an old friend. Soon after Bevin took office with the Labor government in 1945, the Guatemalan minister in London asked for an audience. His mission: he wanted Britain to cede neighboring British Honduras to Guatemala. After a long, cool stare at the Guatemalan, Bevin politely asked: "What country do you say you represent?" The minister told him. "How do you spell it?" said Bevin. Irritably, the minister spelled out G-u-a-t-e-m-a-1-a. Again Bevin stared...
While I use that word reactionary in a nonpejorative sense, I realize that it may irritate supporters of Senator Goldwater; and I would therefore suggest respectfully that he henceforth be known as a "restorationist." In any case, to cede him all rights to the proud citadel of conservatism is to banish Dwight...