Word: rammed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...electoral districts in Greece. Karamanlis had brought on the new elections himself by resigning his premiership as an answer to dissidents in his own party whose defection cost him his parliamentary majority. Under a caretaker government appointed by his strong supporter King Paul. Karamanlis helped ram through a new electoral law (Greece's fourth since the end of World War II) designed to strengthen the two-party system and to cut down on the splinter groups that proliferate in a nation that takes its political differences seriously...
...took command of India's navy, which has been operating and fighting under British commanders since 1613. At a sunset ceremony in landlocked New Delhi, Britain's Vice Admiral Sir Stephen Carlill, 55, handed over control of the 41 ships and 8,800 men to Rear Admiral Ram Dass Katari, 46, the first Indian to reach flag rank. Many Indians had complained that the "Indianization" of their navy came too slowly, but the Indian government preferred to wait until its own officers were thoroughly groomed for command. Before he left for home, Britain's Carlill was gratefully...
...barefoot, clad in skirt, an amulet centered on his beaded hat, the Oni in bronze wears a bib of beads (presumably coral), a knee-length strand of larger beads (probably carnelian or agate), bead anklets, and wristlets. In his right hand he clutches a mace, in his left a ram's horn, the symbol of authority. Slightly idealized, it is unquestionably the portrait of an actual person. The present Oni says that at his coronation in 1930 he was decked out in an identical costume. ¶ A 10-in. tall work showing two figures. Though one head is still...
Batista's crackdown on liberties now killed off whatever chance remained of free presidential elections on June 1. Though the government stubbornly pressed preparations for the balloting, the only major opposition candidate, ex-President Ramón Grau San Martin, 70, warned that suppression of free speech and assembly made campaigning impossible. There were indications he might withdraw...
...again-on-again revolution to come out of Venezuela. With help from Caracas news sources cultivated in two years of covering South America for the Times, ex-U.P.man Szulc, 31, not only stayed on top of the story, but used every trick in the newsman's kick to ram his dispatches past the unsuspecting censors. By telephone from Caracas this week, Correspondent Szulc told how he had done...