Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have absolutely no intention of delivering Guinea either to Western or Eastern influence," says Touré, proclaiming his creed to be "Pan-African neutralism." Even if his procedures owe more to Lenin than to Jefferson, those who know him best believe that 1) ambitious Sékou Touré intends to be beholden to no one, 2) his fellow-traveling companions, who made the journey to the U.S. with him, found the U.S. a much better place than it had seemed through Red-colored glasses...
...spectators are an extremely knowledgeable and convivial lot. Soccer at the pre-college level is confined almost entirely to the Eastern prep schools, and most rosters are studded with athletes from Andover, Exeter, Deerfield, and the rest. Thus, a soccer crowd is likely to consist of people who share this "preppy" orientation. Also, since soccer fans, once committed, are passionately loyal to the game, those in attendance usually understand every rule and nuance. Programs were a luxury the team could not afford this year, but, after the season's first encounter, everyone was thoroughly acquainted with the lineup...
...early summit, he was finding De Gaulle a difficult ally. He had been troubled when De Gaulle pulled his Mediterranean navy out from NATO control. He was profoundly embarrassed when De Gaulle remarked that the Oder-Neisse line between East Germany and Poland should be Germany's permanent eastern frontier. Recently, German dignity was affronted when two French destroyers intercepted the West German freighter Bilbao and forced it to put into Cherbourg on the suspicion (unfounded, as it turned out) that it was carrying arms to the Algerian rebels...
...darkest days of World War I, about the only consolation that fell to the Belgians was the capture in Africa of two small and scenically beautiful German territories on the eastern border of the vast Belgian Congo. Thereafter, first under a League of Nations mandate and then under the U.N., Belgium continued to rule Ruanda and Urundi through a master tribe of willowy African giants named the Watutsis. The Watutsis had been for four centuries the lords of the Land of the Mountains of the Moon, and there seemed little reason why they should not continue...
...these shamans of big-time football turn for advice to the coach at a small Eastern college? Answer: Delaware's chess-playing, 39-year-old David Moir Nelson has one of the finest football brains in the business. And, says Dietzel, "he is not selfish in sharing his knowledge with others." In a word, "Admiral" Nelson is the coaches' coach...