Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...imposing martial law, had it typed under guard. Assured that the troops were in position, Mirza issued his orders. "I have no sanction of law or of constitution," he told reporters. "I have only the sanction of my conscience." At 11 p.m. he sent a personal note to Prime Minister Malik Firoz Khan Noon informing him that his government had been dissolved...
...deficit and spent all its reserves. Though he did not say so publicly, he was displeased by other developments. He had banned party politics; yet the Baath (socialist) party, the Commu nists and others went on politicking. Syrian Vice President Akram Hourani was acting more like a Prime Minister in Damascus than an executor of decisions taken in Cairo. Syrian Communists still published the newspaper Al Noor in Damascus, and embarrassed Nasser by pouring a reported 8,000 copies daily into neighboring Iraq...
...finance, had only to stray a few steps beyond this facade to see nagging reminders of that other India-the India of bullock-drawn carts, and hovels and beggars, the teeming, tumultuous India of grinding poverty that has become the Bank's biggest customer. India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru warned the delegates on opening day: "The changes of the last few years have unleashed a giant. Asia does not want to continue as a starving continent living on the verge of subsistence." The giant, said Nehru, had been kept down for 150 years. "Tremendous urges are coming...
...half of it," he returned, with another shudder and the hint of a sob. "Attend, my boy, and you shall hear the whole sad tale of how I have been reduced in the course of half a morning from a young man flushed with the vigor of his bursting prime, to the doddering human wreck you see before you. "It all began at about seven this morning. I was sleeping the sleep of the young and the innocent, as is my custom of a morning, when the phone rang. I got wearily to my feet, staggered into the living room...
Conformity. Not surprisingly, the authors list agreement with one's department head as a must for advancement. But conformity reaches beyond scholarly dogmas. One teacher complained that his department head "believed that conviviality and sociability were the prime qualities for a professor. We had parties twice a month, played golf, etc. all the time. We also had a lousy department...