Word: ceylonization
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...that staggered Keating and enabled him and his lover, Jane Kelly, the 23-year-old daughter of a retired British army major, to spend a year in the Canary Islands. Jane Kelly sold four "Palmers" to Leger Galleries, claiming they had been in her family's estate in Ceylon...
...million or so, they decked the streets with the flags of 85 nations, hastily widened roads, improved hotels, organized the tightest security precautions in years and even arranged for a band that could serenade the guests with selections from Oklahoma! And so the government of Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) was ready to welcome more than 2,000 elaborately robed and uniformed delegates to the fifth Summit Conference of Nonaligned Countries...
...journey progressed, Craig spoke in Kandy, Ceylon for those not present or soon to go off on their own, and for the majority still a part of the more formal journey, and for Karl Jaeger's designs for the school as a whole, when he toasted his twenty-first birthday with a small speech on Richard Henry Dana. "After Dana spent his two years before the mast," said Craig, "he returned to Boston to finish his schooling. He became a lawyer or politician or something, very respected in his society and not a little well-to-do, besides keeping...
...going through one of these cataclysms when Leonard Woolf decided that he wanted to marry her. It was one of several stern tests of his devotion. Leonard was a fringe Bloomsburyite, in Virginia's words "a penniless Jew," a former Colonial Service officer in Ceylon whose years in the jungle seemed to have purged him of the dilettantism that tainted her other admirers. She warned him that she was not physically attracted to him ("There are moments - when you kissed me the other day was one - when I feel no more than a rock"), but she realized that...
...last word in family planning" is how Britain's Guardian described it. The paper was referring to the Bandaranaike clan of Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon), who have managed to turn government into something of a family affair. At the head of the Indian Ocean republic is Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the Prime Minister and widow of S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, who held this post from 1956 until he was assassinated by a Buddhist monk in 1959. Since Mrs. Bandaranaike was last elected in 1970, an imposing number of her relatives-both from her own family, the feudal Ratwatte clan...