Word: mission
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rapidly developing country like Nigeria, we see some peculiar paradoxes. We saw one of these when the Action Group campaign helicopter landed on the road in front of our Mission compound here. The wind from the rotor almost tore the grass roof off a nearby house. It is probably the first time that "repair of grass roofs" might be listed as election expenses. The helicopter pilot mentioned that one disadvantage of the helicopter's use was the fact that it often attracted more attention than the campaign speech...
While such scenes are obviously pleasing to Johnson, his friends see his real mission as creating a bloc of votes that can influence, if not determine, the Democrats' choice of a candidate. Johnson and his sagacious Texas sidekick, Speaker Sam Rayburn, expect to hold more than 300 delegate votes (mostly Southern) at the convention's all-important first ballot, hope that this will be enough to head off any bolt to Adlai Stevenson. And if, in the course of this power play, Johnson should finesse the nomination for himself, that would be fine. At a press conference...
...Mission to India. In past days, proposals to pool foreign aid have met with congressional insistence that there should be Made-in-U.S.A. labels on all gifts sent abroad in order to win cold-war advantage. And until lately, European nations have talked poor mouth (Italy, for example, likes to bring up its own impoverished south, the Mezzogiorno, as one of the world's underdeveloped regions). Or they have insisted that British spending in the Commonwealth, French aid to its Community, and Belgian assistance to the Congo must be reckoned as each country's contribution to taking...
...next morning, Herald Reporter Buchanan was through, and preparing to go back to Miami. But he had one more mission to perform: "Young had asked me to get him a bandage for a swollen ankle, and a straw hat and dark glasses. I was willing to get the bandage-I'd do that for anybody-but nothing else, since I didn't want to get involved...
SPINSTER, by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. A flashing original both in style and subject by a New Zealand schoolmistress who writes about her calling with a beautiful sense of mission...