Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was as busy last week as a solitary fireman putting out a brush fire...
Against Whom? As Nehru, dressed in white cotton, mounted the Prime Minister's bench, anxious citizens jammed the public galleries, formed queues into the street. In a dampening speech, Nehru stood fast on his policy of neutrality and nonalignment in pacts, even knocked down suggestions that India join Pakistan for the united defense of the subcontinent (TIME, May 11). "We do not propose to have a military alliance with any country, come what may, and I want to be clear about it," Nehru said. He was all for settling mutual problems and living in peace with Pakistan...
...oblique fashion, Charles de Gaulle seemed to be indicating that he knew something that everyone else had missed. A heady scent of behind-the-scenes bargaining was in the air. Modifying the rebels' previous insistence that any negotiations must be held in neutral territory, Ferhat Abbas, "Prime Minister" of the Algerian rebel government, announced that he would be willing to go to Paris to talk with De Gaulle after preliminary contacts in a neutral country...
...Prime Minister Harold Macmillan announced that the rocket that will carry the first one aloft to join the U.S. and Soviet satellites has not yet been chosen...
Generally, Feiffer takes an optimistic view towards people. "They're apathetic about everything, but they're coming out of it. Everyone seems to have one prime desire in life, that's to cop out." He doesn't see himself as part of the beat or silent generation because, as he says, "I don't identify myself with any generation. I sometimes have enough trouble identifying myself...