Word: rightly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Your Right." Since the very next meeting of the French Community's executive council was to be held in Mali, a showdown with Paris was unavoidable. Three weeks ago De Gaulle invited the leaders of Mali to Paris, and when they asked for full, free control of foreign affairs, defense, and finance (previously reserved by the Community, i.e., France), De Gaulle answered affably: "It is your right." Old Soldier de Gaulle added a piece of paternal advice: Be wary of creating an army and thus a troublesome independent political force, as in South America. De Gaulle's package...
...ended the four-year state of emergency last month, they emerged from underground, led by Ezekias ("Pappy") Papaioannou, 51, a Spanish Civil War veteran. Around him were Prague and Moscow-trained party activists, who already control the island's dock and farm unions. They volunteered their support of Right-Winger Clerides in order to work against Makarios...
...major parties that whichever won would take the others into coalition government. At last week's celebration, televised from Caracas' White Palace, Betancourt, founding father of the Acción Democrática (A.D.), explained that "traditionally in Venezuelan politics the winners on reaching power enjoyed all rights and advantages, while the vanquished were left with only that curious form of political privilege known in Latin America as the 'right to conspire.' We signed a pact by which the victors promised to respect the right of the vanquished to take part in political life...
...Under at all. About to leave Australia last week, J.B. was still smarting about the reception they had received: "We were cold-shouldered and treated as if we were lepers." Why? "Political cowardice." Details: "I don't like the political atmosphere of Australia. It doesn't smell right to me. I am not a Communist. My wife is not a Communist. We have never been Communist. I am less Communist than [Australia's External Affairs Minister Richard G.] Casey because I don't believe in secret police and he does." Clearing his throat, he added: "Until...
...director. But whether it is the part's fault or the player's, the general is not an expressive enough figure. And whether it is the production's fault or the play's, The Fighting Cock needs both more thrust and more evocativeness, a right blending of the aromatic and the astringent. A mood induced by Rolf Gerard's sets is not sustained, and neither, for all the play's good things, is the audience's interest...