Word: firebrand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ruler of oil-rich Saudi Arabia (estimated annual revenue from oil: about $400 million) regards Nasser as a Marxist firebrand whose form of "Arab socialism" defiles the Koran; Nasser denounces Saud as a feudal overlord and satyr who keeps his people in bondage. Each morning Radio Cairo broadcasts prayers for the quick demise of the "antisocial, reactionary, squandering, lecherous, oligarch Saud. his family and supporters." In retaliation, Saud, who once financed a $5,000,000 plot to kill Nasser, this year barred delivery of the kiswa, the canopy for the holy Black Stone in Mecca that Egyptian craftsmen had spent...
Noting his reliance on whites, a U.S. newsman nicknamed him "Uncle Tshombe." The advisers soon became a cause of controversy at the parley. Yelled Patrice Lumumba, a skinny,young firebrand from Stanleyville whose histrionics were already grabbing headlines: "I demand the immediate withdrawal from this conference room of all white advisers! Tshombe doesn't dare open his mouth until he has received a slip of paper from the European behind...
Before a breathless CBS-TV audience, Hearst Newspapers National Editor Frank Conniff and his editor in chief totted up the expense-account tariff for their "Task Force" crusades in Europe (TIME, June 30). On the three-man, three-week, 1955 Moscow junket alone, estimated Visiting Firebrand William Randolph Hearst Jr., the tab averaged $1,000 a day. "On the other hand," prompted Fellow Journeyman Conniff, "the caviar was good, and they had a certain liquid there that didn't hurt either...
...mistresses about his troubles. Somehow she managed to get back to France herself to lead the fight for La Fayette's return. In the end, she forged a passport for her husband, got him into the country, and then persuaded Napoleon to let the old firebrand stay. She thereupon took on the job of rebuilding the family fortune-and being polite to La Fayette's newest muddle of mistresses...
When the British sent Firebrand Jomo Kenyatta to jail eight years ago for starting the Mau Mau revolt, they thought they were putting "Burning Spear" away for good. To offset any lingering loyalty among his supporters, they put out reports that he was growing senile and increasingly alcoholic. But in the wake of Kenya's February elections, the triumphant African leaders made clear that Kenyatta was not forgotten. They demanded his immediate release. British Governor Sir Patrick Renison refused. The Africans responded by refusing to take their seats in the new government. The governor began to retreat, moved Kenyatta...