Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the outspoken support of the British (who did not want to share a favored position) and the smaller NATO powers (who did not want to be further left out), the U.S. ignored De Gaulle's proposals. Partly to put pressure on Washington, partly because he is convinced that "France must defend itself by itself and in its own fashion," De Gaulle retaliated by striking at the foundation stone of NATO strategic planning: the concept of an integrated, internationally commanded defense force...
...from $3 to $10 a month, but are regarded by the blacks as nothing more than one more ignominious step toward complete apartheid. When the mandate's administrator flatly refused even to receive a delegation from the location, the voteless blacks turned to the only weapon they had left-a boycott of the city-owned buses and beer halls...
...Fourth Republic," warned them that an impasse in the Cabinet could sweep it out of office. To Boulloche he said, "I understand your conscience but think also of the Fifth Republic and the regime." Finally, fearing that Boulloche's resignation might lose De Gaulle the support of the left on which he depends for his Algerian negotiations, De Gaulle told Debre to accept Boulloche's amendments and sent the draft bill along to the Assembly...
Through it all, Swart, a onetime Hollywood bit-player cowboy who towers 6 ft. 7 in., managed a perpetual wan smile, and by the time he left for home the hue and cry had died down, even if no one was happy that the Queen's representative in South Africa should be a Boer with a pronounced anti-British bias (based on childhood memories of being herded into a British prison camp with his mother), dedicated to making his country a republic and taking it out of the Commonwealth. The Labor Party's executive committee last week passed...
...what he believed to be the bills to a well-wishing U.S. consular official, then flew off crosswind, with a one-ton overload of fuel, into the blue yonder, westbound for Trinidad as his first landfall. Casually opening his remaining envelope, he made a discomfiting discovery: he had mistakenly left his charts behind, had a choice of burning up his excess fuel and returning to Africa or of navigating with his unpaid bills. Little daunted, Conrad headed on westward, a 3,700-mile leg of the flight over a very lonely stretch of water, where there is only fragmentary weather...