Word: meddlers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...credit, Carr did not attack just the West. He also denounced Africa's own murderous dictators, self-seeking businessmen and corrupt politicians. This caused trouble in Kenya, where the All Africa Conference is based. Attorney General Charles Njonjo turned against Carr, branding him a meddler. Even though a palatial $2 million headquarters on government-donated land is due to open in Nairobi next October, Carr tried to pull the organization out of the country...
...deep social and economic problems, if he needs help, Wilson will not be far away. "You will be able to count on my full support, especially when the going is rough," Wilson last week assured his yet unchosen successor. Then, to allay fears that he may become an annoying meddler, he added quickly: "But I do not intend to offer gratuitous advice...
...year-old Theophilus North. Like Wilder, the young North (who remembers his stories in extreme old age) is an escapee from a boyhood variously spent in China, California and Wisconsin, a classics scholar, a master of many languages, an ex-prep schoolteacher and Yaleman. He is also an infernal meddler in other people's business, more or less in the spirit (much diminished) of Jesus, Socrates and George Brush, Wilder's insufferably virtuous hero in Heaven 's My Destination...
Then Young, pewter mug in hand, proposed a toast to "a fine old building" and to the Mass Hall ghost, an omnipresent resident of the dorm. The ghost was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and since no one knows which side he was on. Mike Meddler '73, an Englishman, honored the ghost with a toast to "freedom" and Sam Burr '73, a Yankee, gave a toast to "independence...