Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...waited off Southampton to load equipment for the Middle East. Britain's Anthony Eden seemed confronted with the choice of making good on his assiduous saber-rattling or accepting a humiliating backdown. "Will there be war over Suez?" was the question on British minds last week as the Prime Minister stepped to the dispatch box in the House of Commons and faced an aroused Labor Party, vociferously vowing to pluck him bodily from the brink...
...return to reprisals grew in part out of Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's conviction that the U.N. cannot enforce the cease-fire that U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold negotiated last April. Since that time, 29 Israelis have been killed and 49 wounded in border incidents. Last week's shootings brought the number of reported Jordanian dead to 31, and 27 Egyptians have also died...
...years ago when he became Premier of Japan, aging, partially paralyzed Ichiro Hatoyama declared: "My health will not permit me to remain very long as Prime Minister." Last week, still ailing and still talking of retirement, the 73-year-old Premier launched a desperate grandstand play to prolong his political life. He will go to Moscow, he announced, to seek what two other Japanese missions have failed to get-a peace settlement with Russia...
...Hatoyama and his government. Politically as well as physically, Ichiro Hatoyama was in poor shape to fight such attacks. With illness, his speech had grown slurred, his inordinate need for sleep had kept him away from important Cabinet meetings and caused the press to label him "the afternoon-nap Prime Minister." Worst of all, leaders of the powerful business associations that had bankrolled his rise to power were publicly beginning to suggest that it was time for him to resign-much as they did two years before to signal the ouster of Premier Shigeru Yoshida...
...U.S.S.R. would not refuse so attractive an offer, Hatoyama last week confidently booked air passage to Moscow for the end of this month. "Mr. Hatoyama," said one of his aides, "will be quite satisfied even if his health collapses in the course of negotiations." Echoing public dismay at the Prime Minister's prospective surrender to the Russians, the monthly Bungei-Shunju retorted: "We are not worried about Hatoyama's body. We are worried about his mind...