Word: oppositionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In an attempt to remove the bad-driving stigma from Luxembourg's good name, the coalition government last year pushed through a seemingly routine law requiring all of the grand duchy's drivers to undergo a yearly checkup on their cars, at their own expense ($4). It did...
To many an anxious Briton, the exploding events in distant Nyasaland seemed inexorably to be falling into the same old tragic pattern. "The Colonial Secretary," taunted Labor's Colonial Specialist Jim Callaghan, "can dust off all the phrases he used about Cyprus and bring them out again." Callaghan continued...
"Some days ago," he said, planting his elbows on the dispatch box and gravely taking the House of Commons into his confidence, "information came to the notice of the government of Nyasaland of a very serious kind." So serious was it, in fact, that the Governor of Nyasaland had declared...
For years now, echoes have come across the lost horizon from remote Tibet that the Chinese Communists were having trouble digesting their 1950 conquest. Many of the reports of revolt and fighting came from refugees who in their excitement did not have all the facts straight, and when the details...
Elsewhere, the prospects are almost uniformly bleak. Dave Skeels, at 123, for example, faces a field that includes at least three men who have already defeated him this season. John Watkins, down to weight at 130, is likely to make a good showing and must be considered the Crimson's...