Word: label
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bida became careless with the label of "Communist"-he began to use it against anyone who disagreed with him. He banished political opponents to remote areas, imprisoned an opposition editor who published an article written by Ruben Um Nyobe, Red-trained leader of the rebels. The French themselves gradually became disenchanted with M'bida. Last month to the Cameroons Paris dispatched a new high commissioner: energetic, 44-year-old Jean Ramadier, son of former Socialist Premier Paul Ramadier. Within days of Ramadier's arrival, M'bida's coalition partners ganged up on him. demanded his resignation...
...could have saved Todd did not lift a finger on his behalf-Sir Roy Welensky, the burly Prime Minister of the Federation and overall leader of the United Federal Party. Welensky is worried about his party's electoral chances if the opposition tars it with the label of "liberal." He was also determined to leave the Southern Rhodesians to their own struggles. As Whitehead patched together a new Cabinet that included Todd, and neatly balanced the party's opposing factions, Welensky was off on a vacation...
Such intelligence is woefully lacking in the current Administration, which has placed an inordinate amount of emphasis on monetary policy planning. Monetary policy, which intrudes silently into the economy, is the favored child of an Administration with an almost instinctive tendency to label as evil anything smacking of direct government intervention into economic management...
...trade. Without the benefit of Elvis' sweaty circumvolutions or Pat Boone's white-buckskin charms, 24-year-old Jimmie figures to rake in $200,000 this year. The charge that propelled him to success, a ditty called Honeycomb recorded several months ago for a small New York label, hymns in strongly rolling accents the wonders of birds, bees and matrimony. By a mysterious chemistry that even the song pluggers do not understand, the song became an overnight sock. Jimmie followed it up with his current hit, Kisses Sweeter Than Wine, which is also sweeter than syrup. Jimmie...
White-maned, Yankee-hating Edmund Ruffin watched the signal shot burst over Charleston harbor, seeming to trace in its flame the palmetto emblem of South Carolina. He had left his Virginia plantation, carrying with him a pike appropriated from John Brown's abolitionist band (its Ruffin-inscribed label: "Sample of the favors designed for us by our Northern brethren"), to see his dream of disunion come true. This-4:30 a.m.. April 12, 1861-was his great moment. Edmund Ruffin stepped proudly forward, pulled the lanyard of a columbiad and sent the first of some 600 rebel shells...