Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dying ugly deaths on Cyprus, and the British at home were getting into the kind of mood that approved the gallows on the golf course against the Mau Mau in Kenya. London's big popular newspapers demanded a "get tough" policy against the Greek Cypriot terrorists. Backbenchers in Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's Tory Party muttered that Britain's liberal Governor on Cyprus, Sir Hugh Foot, should be replaced by a military Governor-someone like stern Sir Gerald Templer, who used such collective-punishment measures as cutting the rice ration of villagers in Malaya to make them...
Such measures quieted the critics in London who were demanding the ouster of the man some called "Pussyfoot." So did Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's expression of "complete confidence in the Governor." But it was a measure of Britain's mood that when the call went out for 500 volunteers to serve in the canteens on Cyprus, no fewer than 17,000 (mostly women) stepped forward-by telephone and in queues that formed at 5 a.m.-to volunteer for duty in the turbulent front line...
Serious state business took Prime Minister John George Diefenbaker on his 27,000-mile, 53-day world tour, but in Rome last week he was just a super-privileged tourist. He roamed among the ruins of the Colosseum and the Forum ("That's where Cicero stood"), and wife Olive shopped for Christmas presents of handkerchiefs and Venetian glass. Then Baptist Diefenbaker called at the Vatican for an audience with Pope John XXIII, chatted for 15 minutes, emerged exclaiming at the new Pope's "benign, amiable" personality "and his modest outlook." He quoted the Pope as having told...
...radically new weapons system, added: "The MOLE should put an end to war. No location on earth will be secure from the MOLE." Later stories reported that 1) a special new agency (Subterranean Exploration Agency-SEA > had been set up to handle the new weapon and 2) the prime contract had been awarded to Accuracy Inc. of Waltham, Mass. Accuracy Inc., said the reports, was letting subcontracts for the MOLE's propulsion system ("an atomic engine energized by the molecular disintegration of whatever element it traverses") and its molizing system (a special reverse cone which pulls the dirt...
...Force Academy (7-0-1)-remained a prime Bowl candidate with a solid 21-6 triumph over rugged Wyoming...