Word: kingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...King moved 20,000 troops-two-thirds of Morocco's army-into the hills, under the command of his son Crown Prince Moulay Hassan, 29. He sent tanks and artillery against rebel roadblocks and used six rocket-firing Morane jet trainer planes against rebel holdouts...
...rumble of discontent in the bleak, brown Rif mountains of northern Morocco (TIME, Dec. 22) grew so loud that King Mohammed V and his politicians in Rabat could no longer ignore it. Last week gunshots, artillery fire and rocket explosions echoed through the Rif in the most serious challenge to the King's authority in the three years of Morocco's independence from France...
...felt they were being treated like poor relations by the "city slickers" in the government. But privately, they warned that the problem was serious. Tribal leaders were "in touch" with the Algerian rebels, and spoiling for trouble. Their quarrel, insisted the tribesmen, was only with the politicians, not with King Mohammed...
...King could not see this fine distinction. Fortnight ago he broadcast a message to the rebels, and Moroccan air force planes showered reprints of the speech on the mountain slopes. Using the term "mutiny" and quoting from the Koran to warn of "cruel punishment" to come, the King gave the dissidents 48 hours to come down from the hills and surrender...
...following the imaginative lead adopted by the Times, the New York Herald Tribune, and several other papers. Said Walter Lippmann: "Mr. Dulles opened the door to negotiations on the future of Germany." Growled the New York Daily News: "It seems to us that Mr. Dulles has dropped a king-size brick...