Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past decade entire nations have come to know the puzzlement and irritation that Nehru's sister Krishna described in a Ladies' Home Journal article last year. Nonetheless, in much of the world, anything that Nehru has to say is listened to with respect and attention. This is partly because Jawaharlal Nehru, whatever his faults, is an impressive man and can be a charming one, but it is primarily because he speaks in the name of an otherwise largely silent segment of mankind-one-seventh of the human race...
...reasonable majority in a newly elected legislature," the British Colonial Office had promised, the Gold Coast would get "a firm date" for independence, become the first black nation in the Commonwealth. Nkrumah, onetime dabbler in Marxism, now talks of "self-government in an atmosphere of peace, order and respect for the law." And for all the burblings of Blimps about the blacks, British colonialism has a stake in Gold Coast progress. "That's for you chaps to decide," the colony's able Governor Sir Charles Arden-Clarke tells British Africa's first all-black Cabinet. "After...
...election device was a deadly one, marking something of a moral low for the British and French who signed the treaty, and only less so for the U.S., which did not sign the treaty but nonetheless consented to "respect" it. The Communist North, numbering 12 million and under full Communist regimentation, would inevitably outvote the free South, numbering 10.5 million. The interim two-year period was primarily designed as a breathing space in which the French were able to pull their troops out gracefully with a minimum loss of face and a maximum chance of later trade with the future...
...support of Burmese Communists, Burma's new Premier U Ba Swe announced that he hoped to get a long-term low-interest loan of $20 million to $30 million from the U.S. as a business deal "without strings," thus compromising neither Burma's neutrality nor her self-respect as a sovereign nation. The U.S. will supply technicians in exchange for Burma's rice...
...Self-Destruction. Shirley Watkins, 59, wife of a Lancaster, Pa. newspaper publisher and herself a onetime reporter, has a newsman's respect for history-even a shadowy saga of 30 centuries ago. In 14 years of patient writing (this is her third novel in 28 years), she has constructed her oppressive story with fidelity and compelling logic. The strength of the book lies in her imaginative but firm characterization of the soldiers, seers and courtiers who were enmeshed in Saul's downfall. But above them all towers brooding Saul, a complex, courageous, often noble man, whose tragic flaw...