Word: mischiefism
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Mossadegh's Folly. It had been more than three years since the wild man of Iranian politics, Mohammed Mossadegh, nationalized his country's oil industry and started his country on the road to economic and political ruin. Undoing the mischief and getting the disputants back together took skilled diplomacy. Iran's young Shah and his strongman Premier, General Fazlollah Zahedi, had to operate in an ugly, xenophobic climate created by demagogues and Communists. Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. (owned 53% by the British government) was unwilling to assent to any agreement that seemed to reward illegal seizure...
...last week Russian and Guatemalan delegates had struggled to make any investigation of the war a Security Council matter-Russia doubtless relishing the potentialities for propaganda and mischief. But the U.S. point of view-that ending the war was a task for the Organization of American States-prevailed. The OAS promptly voted to hold a foreign ministers' meeting in Rio de Janeiro July 7. An investigating mission made ready to fly to Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua...
...left school at 14 without having learned to read a sentence. He got odd jobs as milkman, baker, house painter, hospital orderly. "Sometime I quit, sometimes they sacked me. I just couldn't get interested. I didn't care. An' I was always gettin' into mischief, always fightin' or breakin' windows, an' then boozin' and gettin' into trouble with the police. I was a sort of spiv all right...
...France is the eldest daughter of the church," a wit once observed, "but she's the youngest daughter when it comes to getting into mischief." The mischievous daughter was fairly vibrating with volubility this week over an old question: the parental authority of Rome...
...prospects were like the setting-somber. Dulles, Eden and Bidault went to see whether Russia was ready to live more peaceably and honestly with the democratic world. But they were privately afraid that Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov had come to make not peace but more mischief...