Word: fief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Which his great-granduncle Leopold II held as a personal fief rather than a colony...
...first the French and then the Communist Viet Minh, Dap Chhuon had been named Royal Delegate and Governor of the Siemréap area, which includes the renowned ruins of the lost 12th century Khmer civilization of Angkor Wat. Slim, natty Dap Chhuon made Siemréap his personal fief with three battalions of Cambodia's 31,000-man army under his personal command...
...loudspeakers of sound trucks. Lean, spectacled King Baudouin had taken it upon himself to explain in person his government's long-awaited program to give independence to the Congo, that vast land 80 times the size of Belgium, that was once his great granduncle's personal fief. Only a week before, nationalists had been demanding independence in the bloodiest riots Léopoldville had ever known...
Another loser in the riots was the Ivory Coast's Political Boss Felix Houphouet-Boigny, who lives in Paris as the only black African in Charles de Gaulle's Cabinet. He has long ruled the Ivory Coast as a personal fief, and when he ordered it to vote yes in the De Gaulle referendum, 99% of the voters obligingly did so. As he prepared last week to fly home, Houphouet-Boigny sent a message ahead of him that was read to a public meeting...
...Avenue. Pedestrians were herded aside, but cars rolled by unmolested just a few yards away. Only a handful of aides guarded Generalissimo Doctor Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, 65, Benefactor of the Fatherland, Genius of Peace, etc., etc., etc., as he strolled confidently along. In the dictator's island fief, poincianas were blooming, sugar cane was growing, business was booming...