Word: founded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...keep order in our district, we'll take over. Keep your police at home; we'll fix the nozem." Bubbling with official indignation, the commissioner flatly rejected Fat Steak's offer. But last week idle Amsterdamers out for a spot of nozem watching found remarkably little to look at. Those nozem who did appear in Dam Square spent their evenings in subdued conversation-and in the red-light district there was not a nozem to be seen...
...commandingly. "I swear by Allah." he proclaimed from his palace balcony in the sun-charred seaport of Hodeida. "that I shall behead every black and every white whenever a complaint is lodged. There have been misdeeds-by hooligans and vainglorious fools and .. . . agents of the Christians. Gold has been found in the possession of some of these culprits [jeers]. Allah be praised, they are now in my grasp [cheers]. Some of them will have their heads cut off, others their legs and hands...
Ambassador Bonsai has found himself in a diplomatic vacuum, unable to get in even once to present his views to Castro. Last week, his own patience gone, Bonsai finally forced a meeting with Castro by announcing that he was off to Washington next week for what the State Department called "more than routine consultations," i.e., to work out a stiff new U.S. policy on Cuba during a pointedly long absence from Havana...
Gripping the table to control his Irish temper, Jim Hagerty replied with unexpected docility that he "would expect" the forthcoming television chat of Eisenhower and Macmillan to include a report on the issues. When the program produced mostly generalizations,, newsmen looking for amplification found that Hagerty and the British spokesmen were "unavailable...
...year of inspecting 55 top schools in 18 states, Conant found only eight came close to being exactly "right" (all have improved since). Most common deficiency: only two years of foreign language study (partly because few colleges require more). Other flaws: able girls shunned math and science; able boys concentrated on them, skipping foreign languages and neglecting English. All down the line, observed Conant. "the academically talented student is not being sufficiently challenged...