Word: northern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Immorality Act forbids sexual relations between whites and nonwhites. In the dock, Keyser, owner of two dairies and a former tennis champion of Northern Transvaal, pleaded: "I beg to be released with a warning. I was private secretary to the Prime Minister and have a wife and two children. I was held in high esteem by the public, and I do not drink or smoke...
Reproach for a Comrade. In an attempt to force Sukarno into action, the colonels dispatched a mission of their own to Tokyo. The delegation was headed by Colonel Joop Warouw, Indonesia's military attache in Peking, and Lieut. Colonel Ventje Sumual, commander of the rebellious Northern Celebes area. Warouw sought out Sukarno in Japan's state guest house. Warouw's account of the interview (as relayed by Sumual): "I told him to get rid of the Reds or quit, himself. He reproached me for these words, and asked if I had forgotten our past comradeship. I reminded...
...Democrats in this campaign jabbing hardest at defense as an issue? Said Adams: "The opposition gyrates, orates and berates in their frenzy to find a remedy to heal up their sores caused by the continuing combat between the Northern and Southern wings. I concede they have their hands full trying to corral implacably opposed Democrats under one political roof. Their political lasso, evidently, is a headlong attack in the area of their most dismal performance...
Once committed to the West, Turkey has never looked back. In 1953 when the U.S. first began to talk about a "northern tier" alliance in the Middle East, Menderes promptly became its strongest local champion, set in train a series of mutual-assistance treaties that resulted in the Baghdad Pact...
...shot burst over Charleston harbor, seeming to trace in its flame the palmetto emblem of South Carolina. He had left his Virginia plantation, carrying with him a pike appropriated from John Brown's abolitionist band (its Ruffin-inscribed label: "Sample of the favors designed for us by our Northern brethren"), to see his dream of disunion come true. This-4:30 a.m.. April 12, 1861-was his great moment. Edmund Ruffin stepped proudly forward, pulled the lanyard of a columbiad and sent the first of some 600 rebel shells crashing into Fort Sumter; thus began the Civil...