Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...open-air market near Manchester last week, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, smiling in the hustings, took his stand alongside a gypsy fortuneteller's trailer, confidently told an audience of 300 tweedy housewives and white-aproned fruit vendors: "This country is better off today-better fed, better clothed, better housed-better off in every way than ever before in history." Before another knot of housewives in a shopping center north of London, Labor's leader, Hugh Gaitskell, demanded, "What's being done about spreading that prosperity among all of us?", went on to tout...
...minutes in arriving at a verdict of guilty. Covering his wig with the dread black cap, Judge Edmund Davies slowly told Podola: "You have been convicted on evidence of the most compelling character and certainty of the capital murder* of a police officer by shooting him down in the prime of his manhood. For that foul and terrible deed but one sentence is prescribed, and that I now pronounce...
...Unveiling. Inaugurator and chief manipulator of Afghanistan's profitable "positive neutrality" is tough, bald Prime Minister Mohammed Daoud, 50. Cousin to Afghanistan's figurehead King Mohammed Zahir Shah, Daoud took over as Prime Minister six years ago, deals with everything from high policy to trivial administrative details. Hard-working and ironfisted, he is quick to jail even his own Cabinet ministers if they step out of line...
...morning last week, soon after new U.S. Ambassador Bernard Gufler* had left the bungalow, a monk in saffron robes approached the Prime Minister on the veranda. While Banda bowed low in the Buddhist greeting, another man in monk's robes drew near and whipped out a .45 pistol. As the Prime Minister cried out his wife's name, "Sirima! Sirima!" his assailant fired again and again. By the time a sentry brought the assassin down with a wound in the thigh, four bullets had pierced Banda's liver, spleen and large intestine. Next morning, after a five...
...Western dress in favor of long white sarongs, and plunged into the movement that was to bring Ceylon independence within the Commonwealth in 1948. In 1951 he set up his own Marxist Ceylon Freedom Party. Five years later he was, as Eden had predicted, his country's Prime Minister...