Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...democracy are incompatible-they are opposite." For the first time, there is widespread discussion of the threat posed to India by the armed might of Red China, and one Bombay weekly deplored the fact that "the portfolio of Defense is in the hands of a Cabinet minister [Krishna Menon] known for his leanings toward Communism." Indians who have long scoffed at what they called the West's "preoccupation" with Communist plans for world conquest now sound much like the people they once derided...
These days the most popular Arabian nights' entertainments are the televised trials staged in Baghdad by the Iraqi People's Court, under the presidency of Premier Karim Kassem's cousin, Colonel Fadhil Mahdawi. Premier Kassem himself is known to have turned on the television in the middle of a Cabinet session, listened to the colonel's brutal buffooneries and irrelevancies, and murmured: "What a jewel we have here." Last week, with 16 officers and one civilian on trial for their lives, accused of taking part in the Mosul army revolt in March, sheep-eyed, sheep-headed...
...office of "Most Holy Father and Patriarch of the great city of Alexandria and of all Egypt . . . and of all the places where St. Mark preached." The choice: Mina al Baramoussi, born Azer Yousef Atta, sometime clerk at Thomas Cook's travel bureau and a renowned priest known to his followers as "The Solitary...
Discouraged kids have known his smile, His friendly, guiding hand . . . Please help him back to health again And joy will fill the land...
...They think I'll be good for recruiting," said the flabby, long-haired teenager. "Look what a lift the American Army is getting because Elvis Presley* joined up." Thus, last January, Terence Williams, known as Terry Dene to millions of British rock-'n'-roll addicts, donned an army uniform and set out to do his bit for Blighty. Result for Britain's army: a nuisance, men, a ruddy nuisance...