Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proclaimed that it was the "servant of imperialism." In the first few days after the assault, his "Front" managed to blow up one section of the pipeline carrying oil from Tripoli's port to Wheelus Field, had bombs thrown at Barclays Bank and a small Jewish store. The Prime Minister himself protested to the Egyptian embassy. The colonel responded by smuggling 28 cases of automatic arms into the embassy, and (said a Libyan government communique later) "incited some persons to throw bombs inside Tripoli...
...bitterness of the Tory attack angered Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent who had, until then, been scrupulously careful not to criticize Britain publicly. He fired back the blunt charge that Britain, France and Israel had "taken the law into their own hands." Snapped St. Laurent: "The era when the supermen of Europe could govern the whole world is coming pretty close...
Away from it all for three weeks at a seaside bungalow called "Goldeneye" on Jamaica's north coast, Britain's crisis-weary Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden tried to forget all about the Suez Canal and environs by listening to the personalized serenade of a local calypso band. Sample of the topical lyrics sung...
What Lindley had uncovered is today rated as a prime artistic find: five panels of 15th century medieval religious wall paintings, blurred but still color-bright. Experts guess that the cottage was once a pilgrims' wayhouse between British shrines. Except for purposeful defacing by some iconoclasts' pikes in the dim past, the murals remain as they were painted 450 years...
Last week, Canada's Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent sent off a note to the U.S. State Department emphasizing that Canada did not support the U.S. attempt to tax a Canadian company. Canadian and U.S. financiers feared that if the U.S. can collect against Consolidated Premium, other Canadian companies with trans-border operations and U.S. stockholders will be liable to similar tax raids...