Word: gambia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Queen alone who had decided not to curtail her tour except for those two days at Whitehorse in the Yukon. Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana had also been told, early because, as the palace announced last week, the Queen's fall tour of Ghana, Sierra Leone and Gambia would have to be canceled...
Also surprisingly, it was the conservative British who then took the radical step of giving the disease to a human volunteer. Dr. Leslie H. Collier and colleagues began with trachoma virus from the West African colony of Gambia. It proved almost identical with the Chinese strain and could also be grown in eggs. At London's Institute of Ophthalmology the researchers found their man: an old-age pensioner, 71, who had had both eyes removed because of injury and infection (not trachoma). Into his empty eye sockets the researchers inoculated their egg-grown trachoma virus. He had considerable discomfort...
...loud outcries that the Maldivian way of life was in danger. Once again a government fell, and a new Prime Minister, Ibrahim Nasir, asked that work on Gan be halted. In reply, Britain's High Commissioner Alec Morley steamed from Ceylon to the Maldives aboard the cruiser Gambia, and that led to hysteric Maldivian outcries of "gunboat diplomacy." Because of Britain's eagerness to establish a new steppingstone airbase to break the flight from Europe to Australia and New Zealand, the British are pushing grimly ahead with construction...
...Nigeria-itself on the edge of independence within the British Commonwealth-observed that the Ghana-Guinea union of 7,000,000 Africans would hardly be a realistic basis for a larger union of the 60 million people of French West Africa, French Equatorial Africa, the Cameroons, Togoland, Sierra Leone, Gambia and the Federation of Nigeria...
...vice versa? Confessed one M.P.: "For a number of years, maybe quite a few, there would be inevitably a sense of unreality about the functions they would discharge as members of this House." No one seemed anxious to discuss the possibility of applications from 20 other British colonies. Gambia, a small British outpost in West Africa, has already announced that it, too, would like to send representatives to Westminster...