Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hussein Fahkri Khalidi, 61-year-old Palestinian refugee who has shown leanings toward the West, was named prime minister in a seven-man Cabinet...
...calling a halt to H-bomb tests, before Britain has a chance to try out the first one it has made. "Would the right honorable gentleman accept the logical consequences of abandoning the tests, which means abandoning the weapon?" asked Macmillan. Gaitskell retreated. Finally he replied: ''The Prime Minister is perfectly right. Our party decided to support the manufacture of the H-bomb here." Thereupon a noisy revolt broke out in the Labor Party...
...week when the British announced their revolutionary new defense posture, Australia decided to pattern its fighting equipment, in size and design, after the U.S. instead of Britain. "In the event of global war," said Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies, "it would be difficult for the U.K. to maintain a supply line to Southeast Asia, though the U.S. undoubtedly could do so. Although Australia is wholeheartedly a British nation, this policy is not heresy-it merely recognizes the facts...
...nation remains a partner of both Britain and the U.S. in SEATO. But Menzies, who last week set an Australian record in office (seven years and 106 days as Prime Minister), is not happy over U.S. policy in the Middle East, or what he regards as an American overdependence...
...then on, Tessai was largely self-taught, spent the rest of his life carrying out the ancient Chinese precept: "Read 10,000 books and travel 10,000 miles." Though Tessai traveled extensively throughout Japan-including a visit to the Hairy Ainus in Hokkaido (Tessai sketched them humorously, looking like prime candidates for Cartoonist Al Capp's Lower Slobbovia)-and did drawings and maps for the government topographical office, it was scholarly reading that remained his prime inspiration...