Word: oxfords
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...successful as his methods were, Nkrumah still had one powerful voice to silence. He turned the heat on Oxford-educated Kofi Busia, 46, head of the opposition United Party. In his efforts to undermine Busia, Nkrumah managed to get Busia's brother deposed as the Paramount Chief of Wenchi, and last June had himself installed as the yeferiheni (head) of the Wenchi royal family. Finally, Nkrumah got his chance to eliminate Busia himself when the opposition leader announced that he was leaving for a lecture tour of Europe. The government broadly hinted that if Busia ever came back...
...foreign. Their joking is educated, with here a lurking bit of Wordsworth, there a pun on Kyd. They can be most lively when most deadpan, and most deadly when most daft. But their triumph rests on their total effect. Delightful as their songs can be (one is about an Oxford-bred cannibal who no longer likes eating people), the evening would grow a bit becalmed were it not for Flanders' animated patter. And winning as his patter can be-not least his account of the London theater season of 1546-it might prove wearisome were...
...Graduate School of Education will build a $2.5 to $3 million building on the corner of Kirkland and Oxford Streets. Dean Francis Keppel said this new structure will centralize all the school's facilities, now located in seven different buildings and frame houses...
...Negro race. Whom did Sapphire know before she crossed the color line? One Negro girl is ready to tell, says: "I hated that high-yellow doll"; Sapphire had stolen her man. The police find him, a Negro bishop's son with a Mayfair manner and an Oxford accent. Had the bishop's boy ever intended marriage with Sapphire? Good heavens, no. "She was part white...
...Shopping Center supermarket near San Francisco, while Traveler Khrushchev calmly thumped cantaloupe and tweaked grapefruit, the eager journalistic pack suddenly erupted all over the meat and groceries. One photographer, battling for a superior position, fell into the refrigerator butter case; another mounted a display of luncheon meat; another stood oxford-deep in packaged cheese. A cameraman shorter than his peers leased (for $5) the shoulders of a store clerk and spurred his two-legged steed up and down the aisles, crying: "Faster! Faster...