Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Edusei promised a toga-clad, hallelujah-singing crowd at Cape Coast that by next month Parliament would vote that "anybody who gives a speech to the discredit of the government will be removed to a detention camp." Shaking his leopard-spotted baton, he shouted: "I love power, and so Prime Minister Nkrumah has given me the most powerful of all the ministries. I am going to use it sternly and strongly, no matter what." When the crowd whooped gleefully, "We like it. we like it!", Edusei responded: "Call us Communists if you want, but anything we want...
...vast reaches of the Central African Federation, there is no man of consequence more accessible to his white compatriots than the Prime Minister. 30O-lb. Sir Roy Welensky, onetime locomotive engineer. But despite the fact that both Welensky and his four-year-old country-a union of Northern Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland-officially subscribe to the doctrine of "racial partnership," Welensky has remained aloof from the Africans who make up the majority of its people. "Except for his servants," says one African leader, "Welensky has hardly spoken to an African since he ascended the political platform...
...Nkata Bay the notables of the Thonga tribe coldly boycotted the Prime Minister's indaba (powwow). And at Mzimba, headquarters of 170,000 warlike Angonis, the sound of jungle drums rolled down from Mzimba's leopard-haunted mountains, as Mmbelwa II, paramount chief of the Angoni, said: "Your Honor, Nyasaland belongs to the Africans, not to you and your white...
...student at Oxford, Quintin McGarel Hogg was enraged when his father accepted a peerage, which he foresaw would banish him into the "political ghetto'' of the House of Lords and prevent him from becoming Prime Minister (TIME, Sept. 30). Now Viscount Hailsham, Lord President of the Council, chairman of the Conservative Party and a remorseless Tory, Hogg was asked on a BBC show if he, though a member of the House of Lords, could hope to become Prime Minister. "Nobody but a fool," his lordship blurted, "would want to be Prime Minister...
...second edition of its 26-part Wisdom series, NBC presented a perceptive glimpse of Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, 70, in his Tel Aviv library. Notable quote from the man who built a new country: "I'm living in a house and I know I built it. I work in a workshop which was constructed by me. I speak a language which I developed. And I know I shape my life according to my desires by my own ability. I feel I am safe. I can defend myself. I am not afraid. This is the greatest...