Word: kingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Montgomery, where famed Negro Minister Martin Luther King Jr. (TIME, Feb. 18, 1957) had announced that Negroes would soon present the board of education with a school integration plan, the city commission 1) accused "certain Negroes" of "attempting to disturb the operation of the public schools," 2) pledged "full assistance" to the board of education in resisting school integration, and 3) called for a grand jury investigation of King's integration movement...
...Brussels the reaction was stunned surprise. For 50 years the Belgians have-with model efficiency and unruffled complacency-run the land, 80 times the size of their own. that was once the private property of King Leopold II. They kept the 12.8 million blacks strictly segregated and denied them the vote-but then, the 107,000 white residents had no vote either, and paternalism had many advantages for all. It was not until 1957 that the Congolese, black or white, were allowed to take part in their first municipal elections, and the government has never clearly said how much more...
...Chinese neighbors on the north. Red China and Burma dispute their common border, and Ne Win's army is trying to rout out Communist guerrillas. Red China's Ambassador Li I-mang has lately complained to the Burmese for permitting the showing of the Nat "King" Cole film China Gate, and even protested when a soccer team from Hong Kong played in Rangoon. And so in Burma Tito got a formal 21-gun salute and the usual round of dinners and conferences, but he cut short his two-day visit by five hours...
...Nizam of Hyderabad it can be truly said that he is the man who has everything. In his 72 years, he ruled a state of 18 million people, bossed a brilliantly uniformed army of 22,000 men, had a fortune estimated at $2 billion. In his sprawling King Kothi palace, diamonds, rubies, sapphires, pearls and lesser gems are stored in $3 steel trunks fastened with "English-made padlocks...
...childlike mixture of varying emotions: a scene of wanton rejoicing to the fluttering sound of recorders gives way to a mood of reverence, signified by the sweet-sounding psaltery, and again to the quiet, harp-punctuated anguish of Daniel's farewell to Darius ("Is it thus, O King, that you wish me to perish...