Word: majored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...centuries among alien peoples. As early as 300 B.C., Chinese merchants in clumsy junks coasted along the shores of Viet Nam. When European adventurers and explorers first made their hesitant way into Southeast Asia, they found, as Britain's Sir Thomas Herbert wrote in 1634, that in every major seaport were the "infinitely industrious Chyneses...
...candidates bickered just as noisily. Zik suggested that Awolowo had the backing of British business interests with millions invested in Nigeria (correct: they distrust Zik). Awolowo, campaigning by helicopter, replied by calling Zik a crook and an oppressor. Both were under attack from the third major figure in the elections, the Sardauna of Sokoto, Alhaji Sir Ahmadu Bello, ruler of the big, populous Moslem-dominated Northern Region (his symbol...
...choice for independent Nigeria's top political job would be turbaned, scholarly Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, who has already held the post of federal Prime Minister under the British crown for two years. In his speeches the Sardauna cast gibes at Zik ("an unbelieving Ibo"), but his major aim was to defeat his bitterest enemy, Awolowo, who called the Northern ruler a backward feudalist...
...befits a nation ruled through most of its 130 years by dictators, the transition was made with the aid of a crutch: a pre-election agreement among the major parties that whichever won would take the others into coalition government. At last week's celebration, televised from Caracas' White Palace, Betancourt, founding father of the Acción Democrática (A.D.), explained that "traditionally in Venezuelan politics the winners on reaching power enjoyed all rights and advantages, while the vanquished were left with only that curious form of political privilege known in Latin America...
...conditions in which reputable medical men now believe that hypnosis may be useful, a psychiatrist last week added cancer. Dr. Jacob H. Conn, a psychiatry professor at Johns Hopkins University, told a Manhattan meeting of anesthesiologists that this relatively quick and simple method of relieving pain-often a major manifestation in late cancer-can be used by any physician after brief special training...