Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prime Minister Awolowo, describing as "wicked and utterly false" the rumor that Adelabu's death had been caused by black magic, ordered in federal police reinforcements, who used tear gas and gunfire to break up the raging mobs, killing two and arresting 296 of the rioters. At week's end. Ibadan was still under a state of emergency. But Adelabu was dead and buried, and neither riot nor witchcraft could bring him back alive...
...would definitely go to Cairo any time [Nasser] invites me," said Israel's 71-year-old Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion last week. "Though I suspect his ambition is to be the dominating leader in Africa and the Moslem world," B-G told Look's William Attwood, "I have never thought of him as a Hitler; I don't think he would or could do what Hitler did. Therefore I would not hesitate to negotiate with...
...Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, leader of Canada's all-conquering Progressive Conservative Party, flew off to Bermuda last week in a happy haze of fatigue and felicitations, more than ready to soak up a few days of sunlight before tackling his country's lowering problems of recession and unemployment. Behind him was the most dramatic election landslide in Canada's history, a coast-to-coast sweep that carried Tory M.P.s into 208 of the House of Commons' 265 seats, and cut the combined opposition down to a hapless...
...grim as ever he looked during Britain's finest hour, Old (83) Warrior Sir Winston Churchill, victor over an attack of pneumonia and pleurisy, returned to London with his wife after eleven weeks in Southern France. To cries of "Good old Winnie!" from an airport crowd, the onetime Prime Minister unbent for a grin and wave, bundled himself into a car flying his standard of Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, drove off for more rest at his country home, Chartwell...
...Prime Catch. Goya's Muse is not only one of his best, but for years was also his least-known painting. He painted the young Marquesa about 1804, when she was one of the leading lights of proud Spanish intellectual circles and a member of the group that welcomed the Duke of Wellington as a national hero when he arrived to drive out Napoleon's troops. The victorious Wellington returned to London in 1814, carrying hundreds of gifts showered upon him by the grateful Spanish. Among them was the Muse. For generations it hung almost forgotten in impressive...