Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dozing on the Lawn. In the Congo, the rule seems to be: when in doubt, issue an ultimatum. This time the ultimatum came from Justin Bomboko, once Lumumba's foreign minister and now head of the high commissioners temporarily in charge of Mobutu's government. Warned Bomboko: "If tomorrow morning the U.N. has not delivered up Lumumba to the Congolese National Army, the army will assume its responsibilities. If we fight the U.N., well, we fight the U.N. We have delayed long enough." But as usual in the Congo, when the zero hour arrived, nothing happened. Mobutu...
...decree of the District of Columbia, the capital officially celebrated Dwight Eisenhower's 70th birthday, marking him as the first President ever to reach that age in office. After a morning serenade by an Army band, Old Soldier Eisenhower at noon stepped out on the White House lawn, crowded with some 6,000 well-wishers who chorused Happy Birthday, as Mamie watched from a balcony. Some of his admirers presented him with a golf ball and tees, done up in a box inscribed to the "World's Greatest Golfer...
...wild accusations against the U.N., the U.S., France, and miscellaneous other "imperialists." After Lumumba ventured out briefly for a half-hour tour of the city to test his popular support (few recognized him), Welbeck was at his elbow at the in evitable press conference on the Premier's lawn. Becoming impatient, Welbeck interrupted Lumumba to announce that despite the sabotage of "certain individuals in the United Nations," he was ar ranging a reconciliation between Lumumba and President Kasavubu. As for Colonel Mobutu, Welbeck declared, "he has seen that he was misguided and will now follow the right path...
...sometimes tasteless as well as brash. Sir Manfred Schulz, for instance, and his "Vot's dat?" wife seem as xenophobic as anything in Saki's short stories. But Author Tracy also shares with Saki a grand and grisly way with a funny anecdote, as when a decorous lawn party belatedly realizes that the West Indian gardener who lopes by is carrying in his hand not a melon, but the severed head of the cook. Before he is carted off to jail, forlorn Henry decides that the contemporary world is one where virtue and vice are "superseded by Good...
...over with. Powell has not yet created one of the mountains of literature, but his molehills, for those with the leisure to watch, can be quite as interesting as the moles are when they are seen heaving up their moving midget tumuli under the surface of an English lawn...