Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next move, Hurst said, will be to gain approval of the Housemasters. "We hope to get as many names as possible," he added. At present, it is hoped circulation of the petitions will begin Monday evening at dining halls...
Gold Coast leaders were stunned. Dr. James B. Danquah, the portly boss of U.G.C.C., frankly admitted that "it took India 25 years to gain what we are about to gain in less than two years." But Kwame Nkrumah was not satisfied. Boring from within (a technique he probably learned from London's Marxists), he enticed the younger members of U.G.C.C. into a secret "Circle" of his own. Danquah and the moderates had called for "self-government in our time"; Nkrumah went one better: "Self-Government...
...become a crisis country . . . Today the inner clique of Nationalist leaders are in charge of a juggernaut . . . They ride it in arrogance and vengeance ... I charge these . . . leaders with the destruction of unity between the whites; with the use of fear and the trickery of a word (apartheid) to gain power-a word which has become an evil symbol throughout the world; with having shown contempt for all decent Christian sentiments in non-white relations . . .; with alienating friendly nations abroad; with . . . violating the rule of law to retain power...
...three months. It has taken him more than twice that long because he tried to get European opinions in English. Finding the common man on the Continent who speaks English was not easy ("Only the people who deal businesswise with Americans and English-that is, who have something to gain-have retained the English they learned in school...
...Bank deposits up 281%, v. a national gain...