Word: ceylonization
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...months when the Imperial Navy was top dog of the Pacific. The Midway invasion fleet that he describes numbered more than 200 ships, the mightiest yet assembled by the Japanese. Proud in the van rode the powerful, fast carrier attack force that had spread destruction from Pearl Harbor to Ceylon. Its bonus of strength, the admirals agreed, was surprise. Its only fear was that the U.S. Navy might not dare come out and fight after the Imperial fleet opened the attack...
...Blocked by the Soviet Union: Austria, Ceylon, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Japan. Jordan. Nepal, Portugal, Korea. Opposed by the West: Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary. Mongolian People's Republic, Rumania. Up for consideration: Laos, Libya, Viet Nam, Cambodia, Viet Minh, North Korea. Not interested: Switzerland, which thinks the U.N. would "endanger our neutrality...
...many children to school within three years after the World Bank financed a small diesel power plant. U.N. experts are ubiquitous in the underdeveloped free lands-a Haitian coffee expert and an Australian lumberjack teaching their trades in Addis Ababa, a Rhodesian statistician in Libya, an Icelandic engineer in Ceylon, a Danish fishing expert multiplying the catch of Chile's fisherfolk by replacing their oars with outboard engines...
Princeton's Walter T. Stace. 68, onetime British colonial official (he was mayor of Colombo, Ceylon), now one of the leading philosophers of the English-speaking world. A shy, retiring scholar, Stace started out training for the ministry at Dublin's Trinity College, has combined his studies of Western classic philosophers with quiet reflection on the world's religions. "Civilization," he concluded, "is organized goodness," and goodness comes, not from reason or faith alone, but from a "moral intuition"-a sense of the eternal order ruled by a god who is at once the ultimate mystery...
...eclipse will be visible only in a narrow strip of the earth's surface beginning in the Indian Ocean and extending east across Ceylon into the Pacific Ocean north of the Solomon Islands. The maximum totality will be seven minutes, seven and nine-tenths seconds, the longest since 717 A.D. Not until 2150 A.D. will another eclipse be that long, Sinton said...