Word: finales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unfortunately for the British government, a House of Commons vote would not be the final determination of the Tightness of the Tory course. Negro and Asian delegates, anxiously following the debate from the galleries, were dismayed by the government's bland rejection of an impartial judicial commission: Was this the noble British justice they had been taught to respect? The Devlin commission had cleared Dr. Banda of inciting violence; regardless, said Lennox-Boyd, Dr. Banda and some 500 others would still be held in jail...
Since peace returned to Lebanon, Moghabghab has never traveled alone in the mountain regions, always packed a gun. But last week was a special occasion. As the President's motorcade started up the steep final hill to his mountaintop palace, Moghabghab's car, just behind it, rounded the bend. Among the hundreds of Druses lining the road, shouting and cheering, someone recognized their old enemy. Within seconds, Moghabghab's car was surrounded. His driver leaped out, ran off to attract the attention of General Adel Chehab, commander in chief of the army, who was just...
...weary but pleased. Queen Elizabeth II last week came to the end of her six-week Canadian tour, at the historic British fortress of Halifax. Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and 18 Cabinet members were on hand to see her off in a whirl of meetings, state banquets and one final piece of business: the appointment of a new Governor General to succeed scholarly Vincent Massey, 72, who retires this fall after 7½ years of service...
...ears in 29 fights this year) dispatched his first two bulls with some trouble, did not attempt to delight the crowd with his show-stopping telefono routine-leaning casually on the bull's head and pretending to talk into its horn. But Dominguin, facing his third and final bull, still had won no ears, while Ordonez had picked up three new ones. Dominguin was badly gored in the right thigh, landed in a Madrid hospital. Two days later, Ordonez was in a nearby bed after catching a "less than grave" goring in the thigh...
...tormented by a jagged and disordered patchwork of horrible thoughts, echoes, and memories. (Because Lady Macbeth is in an abnormal state, Shakespeare here followed his usual practice of clothing abnormality in prose--even though it meant making her the only one of his great tragic personages whose final speeches are not in verse.) Yes, Miss McKenna knows what she's doing...