Word: ruth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...News to be a better paper by helping it to financial security. The experience of the past four years has shown this to be untrue, so why not abandon the compulsory subscription and make the News a better paper by making it constantly seek the approval of its readers? Ruth Joseph...
Upperclassmen should pick up their blank cards in the Registrar's Office as soon as possible, according to Miss Ruth Davenport, Registrar. Freshmen will receive their cards Monday at a compulsory class meeting in Agassiz...
Back in 1948 Oxford-educated Seretse Khama, chief-designate of Bechuanaland's Bamangwato tribe, married a blonde English clerk named Ruth Williams. At first the tribal elders were outraged, but later, after tribal council, they accepted Seretse and his white wife. But not Uncle Tshekedi, who had acted as tribal regent during Seretse's minority. He asked the British High Commissioner for a judicial inquiry into Seretse's fitness to rule. The British found that Seretse, by marrying without consulting his tribe had, like Britain's own Edward VIII, failed in his public duty. They banished...
...with the government's decision. But Malan hopes to incorporate into South Africa the borderland protectorates of Bechuanaland, Swaziland and Basutoland, and may use the disintegrating tribal system as a pretext to annex the territories forcibly. Said Laborite Wedgwood Benn: "The fact is that in Seretse and Ruth is the focus of the whole problem of Africa...
Asbestos Heir Tommy Manville, 57, who has not yet arranged a divorce settlement with wife No. 8, was planning marriage No. 9 to brunette Nightclub Singer Ruth Webb, thirtyish. Said Tommy: "I don't know her very well, I've only had lunch with her once or twice, [but] this time I am quietly and calmly in love with a woman mature both in mind and body. I think this could be one of the richest experiences of my life...