Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...party of Israeli archaeologists near the border, killing four and wounding 17. The Israeli government had stiffly rejected the official Jordan explanation that a soldier had gone suddenly berserk and fired, and that afternoon the Israeli radio had announced an emergency meeting between Army Chief Moshe Dayan and Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion...
...Ludicrous," hooted a tutor of history. "Vandalism," cried a teacher of the classics. "Shocking . . . dreadful . . . tragic," roared Christ Church's most distinguished scientist, Lord Cherwell. It was inconceivable, exploded another don, that a Cabinet with 13 of its 18 members Oxonians, and five of them-including Prime...
...score of nascent Prime Ministers have strolled its tranquil two acres. Poets from Sir Philip (Arcadia) Sidney to W. H. (The Age of Anxiety) Auden first met their muse in the hallowed grassiness spread between Christ Church and Merton College and the crew-splashed "Isis" that is the River Thames. To Christ Church dons the explanation for it all was maddeningly simple: Minister Sandys was an Oxonian, yes, but a Magdalen man! The idea was to steer through the meadow the High Street traffic that now thunders past Sandys' old college over Magdalen Bridge. This, of course, delighted Magdalen...
Twenty-six years ago, in Tokyo's Central Railroad Station, a nationalist fanatic named Yoshiaki Sagoya shot Japan's liberal Premier, "Lion" Hamaguchi. Last week bull-necked Yoshiaki Sagoya was back doing business at his old stand. In protest at Prime Minister Ichiro Hato-yama's avowed intention of flying to Moscow to negotiate a World War II peace treaty with the U.S.S.R. (TIME, Sept. 24), Sagoya and the khaki-clad toughs of his "National Protection Society" staged a mock funeral service for the ailing, 73-year-old Premier. On top of an altar, flanked by artificial...
...began to see Chinese Communist agents streaming past Mt. Everest to spy with impunity. To Indian protestations, Nepalese replied that they have a 500-mile border with Tibet and could hardly be expected to reject Communist China's advances indefinitely. To drive home the point, Nepal's Prime Minister Tanka Prasad Acharya .assembled a twelve-man delegation and headed for Peking to talk business...