Word: hue
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...officers whom Premier Diem approached refused; they were loyal to Hinh. Next day Diem sent over two tickets for the Tuesday plane. Hinh barricaded his headquarters, posted tanks to protect its approaches. Diem hastily sent to his home town. Hue in central Annam, for 300 Roman Catholic partisans, had them airlifted to Saigon and had them mount guard on his palace...
Elsewhere in Mississippi, resistance to desegregation was taking on an extra-legal hue. Throughout the state, white businessmen and farmers have begun to organize local "Citizens' Councils" to prevent Negro children from entering white schools, "by legal means if possible." Negro leaders are quietly urged not to challenge the status quo; otherwise, as one councillor put it: "The good feeling and harmony that have been building here for many years could all be wiped away...
...unusual features of British public life today is the amount of anti-German feeling now being stirred up. Part of it is political: Nye Bevan and his left-wing Socialists are setting up a hue and cry about "Guns for the Huns"-not bothering, of course, to point out that the Communists have already armed East Germany. In Lord Beaverbrook, the maverick Tory press lord, the Socialists have an unexpected ally. His big Daily Express (circ. 4,000,000) is so het up that it caricatures Chancellor Adenauer as a Mephistopheles surrounded by Junker (see cut), and not content with...
...Germany's Soviet zone, Communist mouthpieces took up the hue and cry against some East German Protestant clergymen who were too outspoken at the recent Kirchentag held by the Evangelical Church in Leipzig...
...year and a half ago U.N. Secretary General Trygve Lie fired U.S. employees on his staff whom the U.S. considered disloyal. The result was a hue and cry. Twenty-one of those dismissed appealed to the U.N. Administrative Tribunal, a review board set up by the General Assembly. The tribunal held that eleven had been illegally fired, and awarded them $180,000 damages. The U.S. protested, and asked the General Assembly to overrule the tribunal...