Word: chieftains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Loss of Authority. Last week, on the night of the French Common Market vote, Macmillan and his old chieftain, Sir Winston Churchill, addressed a rally of the United Kingdom Council of the European Movement. Sir Winston worked up a little of his oldtime vigor in his peroration: "My message to Europe is still the same as it was ten years ago-unite!" When Macmillan got up to speak he was heckled by a group of empire-minded Tory diehards (seven were evicted). Macmillan pitched his arguments to their prejudices: he knew that they fear the diminution of Britain...
Napoleon's occupation forces. The cannon, a beautiful three-ton jewel of muzzle-loading artillery, falls into the hands of an illiterate guerrilla chieftain (Frank Sinatra) after being abandoned by Spain's routed army regulars. Sharing his ordeal of moving the gun overland, through French-commanded passes and along sen-tried back roads, is a weird ally, a spick-and-span British navy gunnery expert (Gary Grant), who, believing that war is a gentleman's affair, is appalled by the barbaric tactics of Sinatra's uncouth band. Italy's Sophia Loren, as a busty errand...
...people want to stay on in their mountain home. Let them take away our plows and our stock, if that is the trouble, but leave us here even if we must starve to death." "They can throw me in jail if they like," said his young assistant chieftain, "but I won't go to Metz...
...midday almost the entire Mamatola tribe were squatting stubbornly on their hillside, refusing to climb aboard the government trucks; Verwoerd's officials stood helplessly by wondering what to do next. At one point, the bemused old tribal chieftain reached out his hand to accept the $75 offered him as compensation for his land, but a crowd of Mamatola women screamed "Coward!" at him. The chief returned the money and sat down moodily on a kitchen chair on the mountainside. When at last the sun dipped down behind the mountains, there was nothing the government men could do but climb...
...brief foray into Quebec, Tory Chieftain Diefenbaker could play no such homey role. Reading speeches in schoolboy French, Diefenbaker was unable to shake Quebec's traditional suspicion of the Conservatives, whose strength is based in the English culture of neighboring Ontario. But across the provinces, Diefenbaker has pumped new spirit into a party that last won a Canadian federal election in 1930. Elected Tory leader only 5½ months ago, Diefenbaker has kept himself on a handshaking, speechmaking grind from morning until well after midnight through six weeks of the campaign...