Word: ramon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sparks & Singes. The democratic working was thanks primarily to one man, a tough-minded, energetic political pinwheel named Ramon Magsaysay (rhymes with bog-sigh-sigh). Magsaysay, who is only 44, first flashed into national view in September 1950, when President Quirino appointed him Secretary of Defense, and gave him broad authority. The sparks he has been shooting off since then have singed the once mighty Huks, ignited the tempers of bigwigs in his own Liberal Party, and fired the ardor of the common Filipino all over the islands...
Pass the Lapu-Lapu. Ramon Magsaysay, rugged, tall (5 ft. n in.), is a blacksmith's son from Zambales, a province in western Luzon. He has both Chinese and Spanish blood, and calls himself a mixture of Ilokano and Tagalog, which refers to the dialects his parents speak. He is a table-thumping, toe-tromping activist who would rather hip-shoot a gun at bottles tossed into Manila Bay than put away one of Quirino's famed two-hour breakfasts at Malacafian Palace, with pancakes, papaya and fried lapu-lapu (a choice fish). He lacks the usual Filipino...
McKinley's Prayer. The Filipinos have reason to cheer the rise of Ramon Magsaysay-and the U.S. has reason to be a sympathetic onlooker. For the infant republic of the Philippines is the great-and unfinished-U.S. experiment in transplanting democracy. In its tropical laboratory, among the dying roots of colonialism and the lushly growing thickets of Communism, the U.S. brand of freedom is being tested in the Orient...
...Philippines, David Jones was impressed by the earnest efforts of Defense Secretary Ramon Magsaysay (TIME, March 19, et seq.) to rout out the last of the Communist-led Hukbalahaps-but he wasn't much impressed by Philippine army intelligence. At the Y.M.C.A. in Manila, Jones bet a fellow boarder $100 that he, David Jones, could do better than Magsaysay's G2. He went to the flamboyant Defense Secretary and offered to try his hand at espionage. Magsaysay accepted : "You will either make good your boast or a fool of yourself...
...Huks are fighting the government mainly because they want a house and land of their own," said the Philippines' Defense Secretary Ramon Magsaysay. "All right, they can stop fighting, because I will give them a house and land...