Word: proclaimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three territories, has the most to gain from the union. It has the smallest (8,000) white minority, all but lost among 2,700,000 blacks. Last July the demagogic Dr. Hastings Banda returned from self-imposed, 40-year exile to cry "To hell with federation" and proclaim himself "extremist of the extremists." Before his oratory, moderate African leaders fell back...
...cotton, moneylending, land speculating) by one Joseph Smouha, longtime operator in the Persian Gulf, Lancashire and the Levant, and known as the richest British subject in Egypt. This was his acquisition of 700 swampy acres on Alexandria's outskirts. He got Farouk's father, Fuad I, to proclaim it "Smouha City" and, while holding about half as low-tax "farm land" for future speculative profit, turned the other half into villas and a luxurious sports club and race track to provide him the pleasures-denied him by his origins -of the stuffy Alexandria Sporting Club
...complete was Nikita Khrushchev's ascendancy last week that he could proclaim that during those 1957 days of "collective leadership," when "the cult of the individual" was out of favor, he had actually been outvoted in the inner leadership, 7 to 4 as Western specialists had suspected at the time (TIME, Sept. 16, 1957). To the routine condemnation of the "loathsome" Malenkov and his allies, Kaganovich, Molotov and Bulganin, Leningrad's party secretary demanded that former Presidium Members Mikhail Pervukhin and Maxim Saburov admit that they, too, had sided with "the anti-party group" against Khrushchev...
...fads, began delving into the Spartan training of the Zen Buddhist priests. By 1951, at the age of 55, he had built up a whole philosophy around the navel's influence on health. He started the Hesoten (literally, Navel Heaven) Society, swooped down upon factory and-office to proclaim that "the heaven-pointed navel receives blessings therefrom." The navel, he told his growing audiences, is "a medal of culture with which every person is born. Polish it. Value...
...than an attempt to cover up corruption and divert the voters' attention." So far Garcia's assaults on the U.S. have had no substantial visible effect on the affection in which the mass of Filipinos hold the U.S. -an affection so strong that Ramon Magsaysay used to proclaim: "Let who ever wants run as an anti-American. I'll run as an open pro-American and beat him easily." Recalling Magsaysay's max im, some of Manila's political pundits thought that Carlos Garcia was making the biggest mistake of his long political career...