Word: leaguer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fighting continued, Jagan appointed his wife, Chicago-born Janet Rosenberg, a onetime Young Communist Leaguer and the colony's most controversial woman, to be Minister of Home Affairs, making her, in effect, British Guiana's top cop. Neither Janet nor her police have been able to quiet things. All that prevents outright racist civil war is the presence of 500 British troops that Jagan called upon to protect his tottering regime...
Combs saved the day, however, with a Texas Leaguer, advancing to second when left-hander Joyce walked Bilodeau. Terry Bartolet next smashed a hard grounder at the Holy Cross third-bagger, who let it get through him. Combs scored, Bilodeau went to third, and Bartolet made it to second. Tom Stephenson struck out on three straight curves and Gilmor was out short-to-first to end the inning and the Crimson's scoring...
Like a Tiger. Dowdy and bespectacled, her greying hair askew, Janet Rosenberg Jagan looks more like a suburban matron than an impassioned leftist in a disturbed colony of 600,000 people on South America's northeast coast. But she was a fire brand Young Communist Leaguer in Chicago long before Cheddi came on the scene to study dentistry at Northwestern in the late 19305. She hit it off with the ever-smiling East Indian, and when they returned as a married couple to British Guiana, Cheddi was making angry speeches condemning foreign "oppressors" and spouting the Marxist line. Wherever...
...suit, the Democratic senator could pass for an Ivy Leaguer. His pants sometimes bag a bit around the shoes, but, except for this, he hardly resembles the popular caricature of Senator Claghorn from the outlands. Church's speech is slightly nasal, but has none of the Khrushchev and the people of Idaho agree is abstract painting." But he can turn words and situations to advantage as well as amusement. When a student asked whether it was a good idea to send people like Senator Ellender to Africa, Church, reluctant to discuss the foibles of his colleagues, replied with a slight...
Leading the opposition was a 54-year-old lawyer and fiery Moslem Leaguer who refused to accept any solution to Kashmir other than a plebiscite, which would probably give the province to Pakistan. "We have nothing against Communism," he said, "but we cannot reconcile ourselves to Hindu domination." Sternly he warned