Word: cholered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Throughout all this, the Congo was a weird mixture of choler and calm. In Leopoldville. the central government's capital in the Congo River basin, life for most went on at its slow-motion pace in the sticky heat; but the Royale, the U.N.'s seven-story main Congo headquarters, was alive with activity. Aides scurried in and out of the office of burly Irish General Sean McKeown, chief of the U.N. Congo military force, who was busy reading reports on the fighting and firing off fresh orders to the air and ground commanders in Katanga itself...
Dignity for the Peanut Gallery. Field's success as a Chicago publisher is due in part to the fact that Bertie McCormick is no longer around. One of the last practitioners of firebrand personal journalism, McCormick hoisted the Trib to greatness on his own inexhaustible choler; when he died in 1955, succession passed to men who possessed neither the qualifications nor the will to carry on in the colonel's style. As the Tribune's tumult lessened, Chicagoans began to hear another newspaper voice. It belonged to Marshall Field's Sun-Times...
...Bros.; Show Corp. of America) launches a satirical spitball at the British Foreign Office, which not long ago returned the compliment by scotching plans to enter the movie in the recent Moscow Film Festival. Encouraged to know that the Banner of Blimpism (a blue funk on a field of choler) still flies, Britons by the thousands crowded in to see the spoof, and doubtless the film's American distributors would welcome a similar seal of disapproval from the U.S. State Department. At any rat Producers John and Roy Boulting, wh subverted the army in Private's Progress...