Word: cyprus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...East. Last week Okinawa's biggest city (pop. 180,000) had a chief executive pledged to rid the island of its "atom-hydrogen bomb base," and to return it to Japanese rule. Said a high-ranking U.S. officer: "Our chief task is to prevent Okinawa becoming a Pacific Cyprus...
...prominent Laborite and an ornament of the British bar. Son Michael, 44, a former Labor M.P.. edits the Bevanite left-wing weekly Tribune. But most prominent of all the Foot sons at the moment is 50-year-old Sir Hugh, who, as Governor of Cyprus, has been energetically working to bring peace to Britain's most troublesome colony...
...step hearty in an intellectual menage . . . Several times when he was six or seven he went off, and we found him with the gypsies on the downs -hardly distinguishable from them." Then, adding insult to injury, father Foot remarked that "anybody can be an M.P. or governor of Cyprus" and hailed a recent book on Jonathan Swift by son Michael as "the summit of the Foot family's achievement...
...shuffled off overseas because I was clearly unfit to follow their pursuits of the law and politics." Actually, insisted Sir Hugh, he had won as many scholastic honors as an undergraduate at Cambridge as his brothers had when they were up at Oxford. "As to the gypsies," wrote the Cyprus governor, "well, I like gypsies. And who wouldn't make for the moors when the alternative was to endure the insufferable superiority of four Oxford brothers...
Only at week's end, after many a Briton had recoiled at this unseemly consanguineous attack on a man whose prestige was a crucial factor in the delicate situation in Cyprus, did the Foots admit that the whole thing was their notion of a harmless family joke...