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Word: hadly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Presumably the North had the most votes, but-as an election last month showed in the neighboring Northern Cameroons-Moslems were restive under the ruling emirs. Alarmed, the Sardauna began a whirlwind electioneering bout, made 150 speeches in six weeks. The Sardauna did not want the federal prime ministership for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGERIA: Democracy, Its Pains | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

The top politicians of Venezuela took to TV last week and made note of a heartening accomplishment: in the year since President Rómulo Betancourt, 51, was elected, the country has for the first time in history had a functioning constitutional democracy under popularly chosen leaders and with full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: The Common Good | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Sitting beside Betancourt, the heads of the other coalition parties, Jóvito Villalba of the Democratic Republican Union (U.R.D.) and Rafael Caldera of the Social Christian COPEI, reaffirmed the pact with such emphasis that they unconsciously revealed the strains within it. Most of the strains come from the division...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: The Common Good | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Hector obediently bided his time, called almost every evening through the years at the McLaughlin mansion on Doctor Delgado Street. For his share of the family fortune, Hector got a monopoly on peanut oil, and with the aid of prohibitive tariffs on other cooking oils, he got rich. As youth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Presidential Wedding | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

In the wake of his recent statement that Soviet composers like to rehash old Czarist motifs instead of going in new directions, Conductor Leonard Bernstein, lionized in the Soviet Union only three months ago, was drawn and quarter-noted in the newspaper Soviet Culture. It was also hinted that when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 21, 1959 | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

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