Word: nam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visit to Washington, Nehru still talked about a Communist thaw and a need to conciliate the Soviet Union, but he also had much kinder words for U.S. policy past and present, overflowing personal tributes for President Eisenhower and, most surprisingly, thoughts of stronger support for South Viet Nam's doughty anti-Communist President Ngo Dinh Diem, whom Nehru had once belittled as a U.S. puppet. "What good will the U.S. has not been able to achieve in the past," India's Statesman reported, "was accomplished overnight by a bold and imaginative decision...
With the Bathwater. In Longxuyen, Viet Nam, cops arrested Sorcerer Nguyen Van Do for murder, got an explanation: with his professional reputation at stake after he had failed to cure an addled old farmer of his insanity, Van Do had resorted to a surefire cure, dunked the patient in boiling water...
...fields, Dictator Ho Chi Minh tried to mend the error by firing Party Boss Truong and circulating a letter which promised drastic liberalization of his regime. Last week, at the sprawling seaport town of Tourane, a boatload of refugees from the Communist North stepped ashore in free South Viet Nam to tell a fuller story of the anti-Red uprisings...
...first ten days, the only knowledge of the uprising in North Viet Nam came from the Communist radio itself (TIME, Nov. 26), which described the revolt in heavily Catholic Nghean province as "prepared long in advance" by "reactionary hooligans . . . taking advantage of our mistakes in the application of land reform...
They fought in ignorance of the rest of the world; they had not even heard of the revolt in Hungary. "We knew nothing of the freedom in the South," said Nguyen. "We did not know that the French had already left South Viet Nam. They told us that here there was no food, that all the women had been forced to become prostitutes, and that the people made pies of the flesh of children. We did not know, but we did know that there was death up there in the North...