Word: self
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three hours at Kaduna. 3,000 turbaned horsemen, 7,000 warriors in medieval chain mail, archers, lancers, musketeers, musicians, dancers, tumblers and snake charmers paraded by. The durbar celebrated self-government for northern Nigeria, the last step before Nigeria as a whole-now a federation of three regions, each with its own Premier-would become independent within the Commonwealth in 1960. "The future may not be easy for you," warned the Queen of England through her uncle. "You have a heavy task before...
...destroy the power of the emirs and the chiefs-under a characteristically empirical British policy known as "indirect rule." So it was not until 1956 that the Northern Region held its first direct elections to its Assembly, not until this year that its rulers finally got around to accepting self-government. Even today the emirs can appoint kadis (Moslem judges) with complete authority to fine, jail...
...lipping his expensive Havana, Kovacs simpers like a contented cigargoyle at one of the nicest things anybody has ever said to "the meanest man in the world." As such, and proud of it, Comic Kovacs turns a fairly unfunny script into a funny farce-the success story of a self-made monster...
...lawyers died when his car turned over in a water-filled ditch; a state Superior Court judge who backed Aimee was impeached (but acquitted). Mused Ma Kennedy: "It seems that nearly everyone who has been trying to help us has something happen to them." Perjurers, crackpots and self-seekers erupted from the woodwork; religious animosities blossomed. Through it all, Aimee followed her code: "I only remember the hours when the sun shines, sister!" She got surprising backing from Baltimore's vitriolic H. L. Mencken. With Maryland gallantry he summed up the case: Aimee was accused of immorality and, when...
...summons to arms comes from the self-styled Tibetan Brigade, a force being organized at the University of California in Berkley. Now in the process of raising men and money for the mission, the Brigade hopes to enter Tibet this summer and give military, moral, and material aid to the anti-Communist native forces...