Word: maling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finished a jet airstrip on the southern island of Gan to link their Middle Eastern bases with Singapore and Australia. In the process, they accidentally subsidized an uprising; most of Can's labor force came from Addu Atoll, which had rebelled against the islands' central government at Male, 300 miles to the north. To protest taxation and "other repressive measures," the rebels had even formed an independent "Republic" on their little atoll...
...Abdullah Afif, get away to safety in the Seychelle Islands, 1,200 miles to the southwest. That infuriated Maldivian Prime Minister Ibrahim Nasir, who simultaneously functions as Foreign, Finance, Education and Public Safety Minister. In revenge, Maldivian saboteurs began to tear up a British mail and supply airstrip near Male. When the British (who hand out $50,000 a year to the Maldives) protested, Nasir decided he would act just like a great big emerging nation, demanded complete independence and the return of his old enemy Afif before he would even discuss the situation...
...prompted the late President Ngo Dinh Diem to keep them under firm control. Sipping coffee at sidewalk cafes, Saigon's intelligentsia carp about Khanh's attempts to rally the capital into the backlands war it has so long regarded as something apart. The Premier has ordered all male university graduates to report to military school, plans to assign able-bodied male civilians in Saigon to part-time guard duty; even more shocking, he has abolished four of the government bureaucracy's twelve annual holidays...
After a full night of festivities nearly 100 of the guests--including Molyneux--marched at 6:30 a.m. from Miss Wetherill's home to a neighboring mansion dormitory for the male guests. Accom-that had been rented by the family as a panying the stragglers was a twist band which finally left them...
Because the label "feminine" has come to be attached to the stylistic spinsterism and tiny ironies of both sexes, there is a temptation to miscall the writing of Shirley Ann Grau masculine. It is not, although the author has no trouble bringing to stage center a male in whom there is no sense of Bernhardt corseted as Hamlet...