Word: ladyship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...able to reduce rice imports to less than half of what they had been, thereby saving precious foreign exchange. With a national budget of $500 million, an impressive $90 million goes to maintain free education right through the university level. Statistics aside, Senanayake noted that "her ladyship" and her Freedom Party had formed a United Front coalition with the Trotskyite Lanka Sama Samaja Party and the pro-Moscow Communist Party and warned that a victory for that grouping would mean "the end of our democratic setup." Senanayake made a special target of Mrs. Bandaranaike's proposed "people...