Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scuffling by resentful overseas Chinese was the first outbreak of violence in Saigon in months, and it was no real threat to the regime of Ngo Dinh Diem. Less than three years ago the august Times of London, among other respectable voices, was proclaiming that "Diem has failed as Prime Minister." (The U.S. State Department was resolutely backing him.) Since then, Diem has reorganized his army, defeated and routed the French-supplied guerrilla sects that waged open war on his government and seen a freely elected National Assembly installed in Saigon. Diem's success has also attracted such neutralist...
...when Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies sanctioned a shipment of scrap to Japan, shocked Australians nicknamed him "Pig Iron Bob." When war came, a fever of Jap hatred swept Australia, and lingered on for a decade. As Menzies said: "You only have to mention the word Japanese for it to be worth three headlines." Last week Menzies was making three headlines and more, after a trip to Japan...
...campaign train west from Ottawa last week to seek a sixth consecutive term for the Liberal government he has headed for nine years. When the train reached the hustings on the green-touched prairies, out bounded a lovable character rarely seen since the last election: not the remote Prime Minister but "Uncle Louis," the politician...
...Prime Minister proclaimed the Liberals' platform for re-election on June 10 as a dedication to "peace, prosperity and social security." At whistle stops, he moved among greeters, giving out a kindly, personable dignity. For groups of schoolchildren, he had a glowing little lecture on their opportunities in Canada's future. At a rodeo in Edmonton, he introduced two pretty cowgirls as "the nieces of Uncle Louis...
...have been officially pinned upon him, has long been ripe for rubbing out. Now free on $25,000 bail while appealing a tax-evasion conviction (five years), Costello, a charmed-life anachronism from the Prohibition Era, could see signs that he had outlived his right to be known as "prime minister of the U.S. underworld." The obvious way for upstart mobsters to hasten the crumbling of Kingpin Costello's dark empire of crime and rackets would begin with the elimination of the Big Boss himself. Costello taxied last week from a quiet on-the-town evening to his apartment...