Word: linked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eurafrica. From the very beginning of the Algerian debate last week in the U.N. General Assembly's Political Committee, France showed that it was doing its best to link the vocation and the friendship. In contrast to 1955, when France boycotted a discussion of Algeria, its representative (largely to win U.S. backing) not only agreed to discuss the rebellion but even to inform the U.N. of France's plans for restoring peace in Algeria. In defensive tones, Christian Pineau outlined Mollet's Algerian program: first an unconditional ceasefire, next free elections and finally negotiation of Algeria...
...first flurry of tongues was all about Lieut. Commander Michael Parker, wartime shipmate, good friend and private secretary to the Duke of Edinburgh. Last week a London newspaper reported what palace officials had known for six months -that Mike and his wife were separating. Gossipists were prompt to link Parker's name (without foundation) to that of another woman, and the news was duly radioed to the royal yacht Britannia, on which both the Duke and Parker were approaching Gibraltar at the end of a four-month, globe-girdling tour of the Commonwealth. Soon afterward the palace announced that...
...called it "a damned lie." The South Carolina house of representatives passed a resolution declaring it an "insult" to the state, and the Rhode Island senate passed one calling it "a gross and unwarranted insult" to the Guard. On Capitol Hill, a New Mexico Representative pronounced Wilson "the weakest link in our defense," and Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse declared in a floor speech that the Secretary "was never qualified...
...reached a diagnosis of the emotional state which predisposes to tuberculosis. It results, he reports in the Scottish Health Bulletin, from an "inordinate need for affection." But this alone is not enough; it requires the triggering action of a "break or serious threat of a break in the love link," using the word love in its spiritual rather than its sexual sense. Two-thirds of the TB victims studied by Dr. Kissen reported having had such a break, or threat of one. Some of the breaks resulted from death in the family and enforced separations; the vast majority occurred...
...fires as he did in digging. But the canal was built, England placated, and in 1869 the waters of the Mediterranean and the Red Sea were joined directly for the first time-more than 3,000 years after the earliest known attempt, using the Nile as a connecting link, was supposedly made by the legendary Pharaoh Sesostris...