Word: magsaysayism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...space and eternity. and they traveled with the speed of light. On earth last week, a sort of human seraph was buzzing around the planet at a fabulous rate for a messenger tied to mere aircraft. In less than a fortnight he had: munched mangoes in Manila with President Magsaysay; lunched in London with Winston Churchill: held high-level sessions with Chiang Kai-shek in Taipei and Konrad Adenauer in Bonn; dropped out of the clouds for a brief visit with Dwight Eisenhower in Denver; read a detective story in mid-Pacific and slept seraphically across the Atlantic...
...envisions no common commander, or even, at this point, a secretariat. Official name of the pact is the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty; but how could anyone pronounce SEACDT? "Why not," suggested U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, "call it the Manila Pact?" And when Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay took up the phrase in a speech, this seemed to be the winning label...
...deal has persisted: the Philippine government seemed almost as anxious as Taruc to stop the costly bloodletting. Despite Taruc's acknowledged involvement in killing, the government had not asked the death sentence, but it had plainly expected a lifetime jail sentence. "I am shocked," said President Ramon Magsaysay. "For the No. 1 Communist of all to get such a light sentence is a mockery of justice." Magsaysay forthwith ordered his legal aides to 1) appeal the light sentence, 2) press murder charges against Taruc...
...unrepentant) man or was simply proclaiming a new tactical retreat of the party was hard to determine from his speech. The one-time Huk leader never once referred to his surrender (TIME, May 24), instead preferred to say that he "came down" to Manila. It was plain that the Magsaysay government was happy to have him in its hands instead of on its hands : the campaign against the Huk hideouts is going well, but is also costly...
Mambo writhed its way through halt a dozen tropical and semitropical countries (Philippines President Ramon Magsaysay called it a "national calamity") before it seeped into the U.S. YANKS DIG THAT MAMBO BEAT, Variety's front page announced last June. It ran like quicksilver through the brassier ballrooms, and even rolled into such tony spots as Manhattan s Waldorf-Astoria...