Word: dinh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stories of the Devil King's men flew from village to village. Some said they covered themselves with tiger skins, others talked of the Devil King's sorcerer, who carried the embalmed heads of two virgins in a leather bag. When a detachment of President Ngo Dinh Diem's infantry raided one bandit hideout near the Cambodian border, they found a copy of orders from the Devil King instructing his men to kill, sow confusion among the peasantry and disturb rural security. They were told that anyone who killed ten persons would become able...
Just before South Viet Nam's doughty President Ngo Dinh Diem set off last week on a four-day state visit to neighboring Thailand, he was tactially informed that his favorite white sharkskin suit would not be proper at the Royal Thai court. He dispatched an aide on an emergency trip to Hong Kong, but when Diem took one look at the Western-style cutaway, striped pants and grey top hat that the aide brought back, he snorted in disgust and refused to wear them...
...moral impact is beginning to be felt, e.g., in the Republic of South Viet Nam, which U.S. aid and Vietnamese enterprise have transformed in less than three years from a war-ravaged country into a notable anti-Communist bastion. There doughty President Ngo Dinh Diem (TIME, May 20) is now lifting a standard that attracts many another Asian leader: he is providing remarkable proof that economic planning can be successfully combined with the classical values of Asia...
...from Loneliness. For austere, scholarly Ngo Dinh Diem (pronounced 'n go din d'zee-em), President and Premier of the Southeast Asian republic of South Viet Nam, Ike's invitation to make an official state visit was a triumph almost as great as Viet Nam's freedom is a shining vindication of U.S. foreign-aid policies. Less than three years ago Diem was a lonely, almost unknown Vietnamese patriot and onetime provincial governor living in self-imposed exile from French colonial rule-among other places, in the U.S., where he spent several years as a guest...
...stated person to person with proud, doughty little Ngo Dinh Diem, these important underpinnings of free-world policy -and U.S. aid-regained something of the lustrous shine that they deserve...