Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that came the British plan to merge Nyasaland with its neighbors, Northern and Southern Rhodesia, to form one big Central African Federation (TIME, Feb. 9). Africans opposed it, preferring distant Colonial Office rule to rule by Southern Rhodesia's white colonials, and fearing that federation would enable the whites to grab more land. A few "safeguards" for the Negroes were written into the Federation constitution, but the nationalist-minded Nyasaland African Congress was not satisfied...
...wonder that a lot of people were surprised recently to read in the "In Memoriam" columns of the august London Times this notice: "At Battle Bosworth August 22, 1485, there fell, fighting bravely, Richard III of England. King. Statesman. Soldier. Gentleman. Deeply mourned. 'From distant shores, pale dusty ghost. One grain of sand salutes your memory...
...Those Distant Hills. Despite his hopeful announcement to the neighborhood kids in Denver, Ike was not up to much trout fishing. At a highly informal press conference, he gave nine-year-old Philip...
...good old summertime, any conscientious U.S. headline reader last week was apt to feel that allies were proving faithless and the world was falling apart. The Shah flees; France goes on strike; Britain acts testily; anti-Americanism spreads. So read the headlines. Happenings in isolated and distant places interacted in unpredictable ways...
...armada of some 40 warships-U.S., British, Israeli, Greek, French and Italian -sped to the rescue, while new but lesser tremors continued to shake the islands. Said the commander of the British destroyer Daring: "We could feel the ship shaking, as if distant depth charges were being dropped." The U.S. cruiser Salem, flagship of the Sixth Fleet, put a team of doctors and medical aides ashore. They reported: "The silence is broken only by the cries of the injured, and the crunch beneath the shoes of the stretcher bearers." Said Earl Mountbattan of Burma, NATO Mediterranean commander: "Cephalonia looks...