Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second is described as a "handsome" woman from Tientsin. One of his four sons was executed by the Kuomintang; a daughter went to school in Moscow and married a Spanish Communist. Sharp-tongued and humorless, Liu Shao-chi has flicked a raw spot on nearly everyone around him. When Premier Chou En-lai suggested in a speech that no one could be considered faultless, he was forced to admit that "Chairman Mao and Comrade Liu Shao-chi and a few other leaders have achieved the stage of perfection." Liu even opposed Mao Tse-tung on the "let a hundred flowers...
...Assembly, the Algerian and Saharan representation is so large (67 members) that the mushy North African dish couscous has become a standard plat du jour in the Assembly restaurant. Deputies were eager to debate the progress of the costly, unsettled Algerian war. Imperiously, Premier Michel Debre declared that there would be no debate on foreign policy, at least before the Big Four foreign ministers' meeting next week, or on Algeria, and under De Gaulle's Fifth Republic constitution, which Lawyer Debre devised. Premier Debre had his way. Complained ex-Premier Robert Schuman: "I wonder if we Deputies have...
...those he was questioning by spinning a small silver spoon as he talked, that the 110-lb. German police dog at his side named Nero had once guarded Germany's Hermann Göring. One morning last December, France awoke to surprising news: without a word of explanation, Premier Charles de Gaulle had fired Wybot as chief of the D.S.T. and banished him to a dusty office as inspector of police schools...
...scene was a little overdramatic, but then, dictators must take no chances. The man whisked out of Portugal to asylum in Brazil was Premier António de Oliveira Salazar's biggest problem-Humberto Delgado, a balding Portuguese general-turned-politician, who had spent the past three months in petulant, self-imposed exile in Brazil's Lisbon embassy. Running for the ceremonial office of President last year against a candidate backed by Salazar, in a land where the press is not free and Salazar's men count the votes, Delgado polled almost one-fourth of the votes...
...passel of Continental newspapers persisted in spreading rumors that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev must watch his intake or be subject to a precipitate outgo from this earth. U.S. "Astrologian" Carroll Righter, syndicated globally in some 250 U.S. newspapers, promptly confirmed it all by warning that Khrushchev's stars indicate a need for great vigilance over "his stomach and digestive tract...