Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain's 78-year island rule, 400,000 Cypriots mounted a death watch. Behind shuttered doors Nicosia waited as Father Antonios, head priest of Archbishop Makarios' palace chapel, went to give the doomed pair the Holy Sacraments. Karaolis wrote out his confession on a piece of paper. At 4 a.m. a guard nudged Antonios from a restless couch, led him to a dim room where two plain coffins stood by the wall. Because the British insisted on burial in the prison courtyard, i.e., in unhallowed ground, the Orthodox priest could not hold service. He read briefly from...
...vague question: "What about Harriman?" All Stevenson could find to reply was, "Well, what about him?" When the skilled questioning by a reporter brings a reply that makes news, TV gets the benefit; the news can be telecast long before the reporter can get his story into the paper...
Though Noblesse Oblige is obviously the definitive work on the subject, the controversy really began with a learned paper, published in Helsinki by Philologist Alan S. C. Ross of the University of Birmingham. "Today," said Ross, "a member of the upper class is, for instance, not necessarily better educated, cleaner or richer than someone not of this class...
Casablanca's daily Maroc-Presse braved threats, bombings and assassinations last year in the classic role of a newspaper sticking courageously to an unpopular editorial position. By urging negotiation with moderate Moroccan nationalists, the paper outraged French extremists, who beat up its staffers, smashed its offices, machine-gunned Publisher Jacques Le-maigre-Dubreuil to death (TIME, Aug. 8). Last fall the crusade triumphed: the French negotiated, just as Maroc-Presse urged, and restored Sultan ben Youssef. But the paper itself did not fare so well as its crusade. After the sultan's return, the suppressed Arab dailies reappeared...
...time the paper ran through a trust fund left by its slain publisher, circulation had dived from 55,000 to fewer than 20,000, and wealthy Moroccans would lend no money. Last week Maroc-Presse tasted the bitter fruit of its victory: the paper that bombs could not intimidate folded under the crush of its deficit...