Word: josiah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Together they controlled Nairobi's lucrative gambling casino, plus coffee and sisal plantations, manufacturing concerns, downtown office buildings and coastal resorts. His government's reputation was further damaged by the political murders of Planning Minister Tom Mboya, once regarded as a possible successor to Kenyatta, and Kikuyu dissident Politician Josiah M. Kariuki. Both men died under circumstances that have never been fully explained...
...decade-old laws banning the guerrilla parties' political wings that are based inside Rhodesia. Both wings have been operating there more or less openly under different names anyway, and the radicals scornfully rejected the council's offer. The gesture of legalizing the parties' status, said Josiah Chinamano, the leader of Nkomo's group, was "a waste of time...
Genuine Scrap. Josiah Bounderby (Timothy West) is the apostle of the creed, the poor boy who made good, a man of red-faced bluster and aggressive self-pity. "I'm a bit of dirty riffraff," he brags, "a genuine scrap of rag, tag and bobtail." His young wife Louisa Gradgrind (Jacqueline Tong, who played Daisy in Upstairs, Downstairs] is as much a victim of the times as her husband's workers. Her father (Patrick Allen), who runs what is thought to be a progressive school, has taught her to ignore all feeling and rely only on facts...
Briarcliff College President Josiah Bunting, 36, a novelist and ex-Army major, suggested that his purpose is "to make the students tolerant and sensitive, to teach them that their education should not interfere with their learning and to help them see when people are talking rot." John Jay Iselin, 42, president of Manhattan's Educational Broadcasting Corp., saw as his role "to select pertinent information and to put it out in a way that can be understood" by expert and layman alike...
Over 160,000 men and women have matriculated over the years--1000 have received degrees--to hear Harvard greats ranging from philosopher Josiah Royce at the turn of the century to Oscar Handlin in the present. Most people are surprised to even learn that the school exists, says Thomas Crooks, former director of the Summer School. "Except for some flurry on the seventh floor of Holyoke Center at registration time, a few lights on in Yard classrooms at night, and the Commencement Exercises, the program is largely invisible," he says...