Word: northern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enough. To ease the tribal tensions that threaten to tear the country apart, he proposed dividing Nigeria's four regions into "no fewer than eight and no more than 14" separate states within a federation. Gowon also extended his ban on all civilian political activity, refused to withdraw Northern army units from the suspicious East and West, and made his only obeisance to Eastern feelings by promising a federal "rehabilitation program" to aid the 40,000 merchants and bureaucrats of the Eastern Ibo tribe who were driven out of the North by last fall's terrorism. Pleaded Gowon...
Though the company mounted several fine productions during its first few seasons, there was grumbling about Kelly's slick Northern ways, about "buying foreign" and "squandering" money on opera. Salvation came in the form of two Dallas millionaires with the unlikely names of James Bond, now president, and Henry Miller, chairman of the board. From their pockets and those of friends, they corralled enough contributions to help the company through its financial crises...
When the author paid his first visit to the place in 1948, he knew only that the Scandinavians "were people in a northern world of dark days and bright nights who read a lot of books, enjoyed good plumbing and had some problems about love and laughter in a cold climate...
...fewest suicides in America and Northern Europe take place in December, the most in April and May. No one knows why April is the crudest month-perhaps because someone who is depressed to start with feels lonelier and more out of things than ever, when the rest of the world is elated by spring, perhaps because of frustrated sexual stirrings or nostalgia for happier times...
Unprecedented floods in Northern Italy have threatened the heritage of Italian art. In one day, more damage was done to Florence than in the whole of the Second World...