Word: coloniale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In the House of Commons last week, Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd announced that the British government had lost patience with Cypriot insurgents on the British-held Mediterranean island of Cyprus. Said tall, tough Lennox-Boyd: "As to the future, the first and most important duty is to restore law...
The day will boast additional cause for rejoicing among the friends of the Emerald Isle. It marks the 181st anniversary of "Evacuation Day," the departure of the British from Boston under the guns of colonial batteries mounted on Dorchester Heights.
Two post-Broadway hits still linger for the benefit of provincials. Can-Can, by Cole Porter, isn't offensively risque from the second balcony of the Opera House. Today at 2:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Bus Stop is a comedy of delicate curves with Peggy Ann Garner. Today...
Some of the younger Nationalists and their wives thought the occasion called for a gesture of thanks to their leader. They organized a victory march on Groote Schuur (Great Barn), the vast Dutch Colonial pile, once the mansion of Empire Builder Cecil Rhodes, that is now the Cape Town residence...
For the first three-quarters of her novel, India's Kamala Markandaya, 32, chronicles this head-on culture clash on the purely domestic level, but in the last part Some Inner Fury is rocked by the ferocity of an India passion-bent on independence. In the eye of this...