Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First day's business was the ceremonial vote to accept the U.S. offer to join the pact's military committee, making the U.S. a full member in all but name, and loosing a flood of unsolicited praise for the U.S. Said Pakistan's Prime Minister Hussein Shaheed Suhrawardy, whose country depends on the U.S. for 40% of the government's budget: "They have made no attempt to bind us to them in chains or strings, and weak though we are, negligible though we may be in military might, they have had the vision and large-heartedness...
Short, plump and natty in a tan gabardine suit, Nuri asSaid, 13 times Prime Minister of Iraq, stepped down jauntily from his Vickers Viscount. His lips slightly parted, his hooded eyes darting back and forth as if not to miss a detail, he looked almost as if he were tasting the happy occasion...
...platitudes with Finnish Premier V. J. Sukselainen, resplendent in top hat and cutaway, the elder of the two visitors shouted out a greeting to a Finnish army honor guard. Like well-drilled children in an old-fashioned schoolroom, the soldiers chorused back: "Hyvaapaivaa, Herra Paaminesteri-Good day, Mr. Prime Minister." For the first time since their visit to Britain more than a year ago, Bulganin and Khrushchev had again taken their road show outside the Iron Curtain...
Smilingly acknowledging the banzais of his welcomers, Japan's Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi returned to Tokyo last week from a six-nation tour of Southeast Asia. Then he went off to the pines and waterfalls of a mountain resort to prepare himself for a more crucial assignment, his state visit to the U.S. next week...
Tastefully toppered for the Epsom Derby, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan ignored with statesmanlike restraint an infield dotted with an "American" striptease tent, a rock-'n'-roll band and a "Beautiful Slave Girl in the Grip of a Fifteen-Foot Deadly Reptile," watched with reserve as Crepello, the favorite, galloped home free (see SPORT...