Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some 40 British-made cars, all but half a dozen are technically capable of speeds over 75 m.p.h. But while British owners bandy maximum speeds, r.p.m.s and acceleration rates as expertly as if auto racing were the nation's favorite blood sport, they seldom, if ever, get to test these heady technicalities. On an antique road network, pocked by decades of neglect and choked by 8,500,000 cars and trucks passing relentlessly through one narrow village after another, most drivers consider themselves Barney Oldfields if they can occasionally push speedometers over 30 m.p.h., and they get their thrills...
...Pakistani twist to the word implies that India is a nation centered on a faith, just as Pakistan is, and that neither has a right to the word-India-that both used to share. Pakistani editors practiced Bharatism so zealously, automatically changing the word India every time it turned up, that they would, for example, misquote President Eisenhower as referring to Nehru as the "Prime Minister of 'Bharat.' " The results often got ludicrous. When Hussein Shaheed Suhrawardy visited the U.S. as Pakistan Prime Minister two years ago, Pakistani readers learned that he had been presented with a "Bharati...
...would like to abolish proportional representation in favor of a U.S.-type system in which deputies would be elected from individual constituencies. The result, Ben-Gurion believes, would be to cut down the number of parties, and permit a more stable system of governing what he complains is a "nation of Prime Ministers...
...capitalize on it politically is Aquilino Boyd, 38, a handsome lawyer from a Panamanian "best" family, who would like to be elected President next year. For months, Boyd has been whipping up feeling. "Panama, like Egypt," he said, "could not build her own canal because she is a small nation and had to accept foreign aid. Every day the idea is gaining force that eventually Panama should regain jurisdiction." What that meant precisely, he never said, but he did not want the canal itself for Panama. Instead, he would settle for a fifty-fifty split of gross canal revenue (fiscal...
...African protectorate, His Majesty agreed with newsmen that the morning was quite chilly, then jovially parted his robe to disclose a suit of long underwear. Dr. Bunche will plot George's U.S. itinerary, which will incorporate the King's wish to view a broad swath of the nation...