Word: meanness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Duplex Diplomacy. Did he mean it? As at least token proof, Russian-made MIGs?more than 100 of them?have arrived in the U.A.R. and Syria to begin replacing the estimated 400 planes destroyed by Israel. Another Cairo arrival was Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny, the third man, with Kosygin and Brezhnev, in the Kremlin's collegial leadership. "The imperialists and their agents imagine that we have come here to exchange small talk," Podgorny told President Gamal Abdel Nasser. "But we will prove to them that we have come here for more than talk. We have come here to frustrate...
...Anguillans, however, the end of colonialism did not mean the end of outside domination. They bristled when Prime Minister Robert Bradshaw, sitting in St. Kitts, refused to allow them to set up local governing councils, and they decided to hit back. In March, they chased out the island's chief administrator. Two months later, armed Anguillans ousted the 15-man police force and rolled out oil drums on the little Anguilla airstrip to make sure that they did not return. As occasional shooting continued to flare up in the torpid Caribbean nights, Bradshaw appealed to Britain to help quell...
...first New Zealander ever named to a major office in the Church of England, Sullivan served-as an Army chaplain during World War II. As Archdeacon of London, he read the Biblical lesson at the state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill. Sullivan was surprised by his promotion. "Does this mean he's naming me?" he asked his wife when Wilson's letter of appointment came in the mail this month...
...worst kind of destruction I've seen," said Zoo Keeper John Nichols. "It'll be too bad," added another attendant, "if we get a mean elephant out of this-she certainly isn't going to get any smaller." Yet, despite the opening-day mayhem, Zoo Director Frank Vincenzi is determined to make the animals available to children. "There will be no fences," he said. "That would ruin what we're trying to make here...
...contract. "We're not just altruistic businessmen," says a Litton executive. "We hope to make it profitable for them and for us. If we are successful, it will improve the standard of living in Greece, it will bring us more income, and in the end it will mean more business...