Word: highhandedness
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Krishnamachari himself recalled "some discussions" about stock purchases but "no order, no instructions." Unsympathetically, the judge found that Krishnamachari "must fully and squarely accept responsibility for what his ministry did," and Nehru immediately accepted Krishnamachari's resignation. The case confirmed what many Indian voters have long suspected-that the...
Barks & Blights. Docking lost his first campaign for governor in 1954 by 44,000 votes. On his second try, he campaigned in every county of the state, won by 115,000 votes. His victory followed a crunching split in the long-powerful Kansas G.O.P., where highhanded Republican Governor Fred Hall...
Trampled Will. The plain fact was that the U.S. faced increasing antagonism among Okinawa's 600,000 people. Despite the prosperity brought by 55,000 U.S. military personnel and their dependents, Okinawans resent the fact that the U.S. has commandeered one-fifth of the crowded island's arable...
"Honorable members," pleaded the speaker of Ghana's Parliament in the midst of a sudden outburst of anger on the floor, "let there be harmony in this House." Ghana's legislators were debating the Emergency Powers Bill by which the increasingly highhanded government of Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah...
Jeers & Contempt. Last week, after Okinawa's High Court and the Ryukyus legislature refused to interfere, Army Lieut. General James E. Moore, the U.S. High Commissioner, intervened. Acting nominally on an appeal by 24 of Okinawa's 64 mayors, he decreed a change in the assembly's...