Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chief Obodo's dominion in the district of Abakaliki was as near to absolute as that of a padrone in a Sicilian village. The distant government in the capital city of Lagos hardly interfered. Chief Obodo had his own courts, collected goats and cows from the villagers for tribute, had his own murder squad to enforce his orders. He boasted: "After God comes Chief Obodo." When a contractor who had already begun negotiations discovered that Obodo was interested in the same job, he hurriedly withdrew, sent goats and libations to the chief as peace offerings. Obodo's power...
...latest novel (his first to be published in the U.S. was The Game and The Ground-TIME, May 6, 1957). Orders of Chivalry is witty, satirical, and one of the toughest, most trenchant novels to come out of Britain in recent years. Author Vansittart (38-year-old distant cousin of Britain's late Diplomat Lord Robert Vansittart) shows a boldly romantic streak in admiration for such old-fashioned virtues as duty, discipline, honor and obedience...
...what his students produce, since they usually do so only after he is dead, and seldom credit him with their success. Under these circumstances, scholars tend to recruit colleagues who will enhance the immediate professional reputation of their department, rather than teachers who might, in the distant future, enhance the local reputation of the college, to which the recruiter has only a secondary allegiance...
...distant kin to the late Frank Gannett, who ran a bigger chain-currently 20 papers in four states. Guy's papers: the Portland Press-Herald, Express and Sunday Telegram, the Waterville Sentinel, and the Kennebec Journal in Augusta. Combined circulation...
Battling against the formidable combination of Yale strength and injuries to key Crimson performers, the varsity track squad put on a tremendous display of courage and perseverance before losing to the Bulldogs, 72 1/3 to 55 2/3, last Saturday at New Haven. Princeton was a distant third with nine points...