Word: selfe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angeles Lawyer Alphonse Matthews, a self-styled beatnik named Eric ("Big Daddy") Nord turned the joint into a coffeehouse. By midsummer, "the Gas House" was in full swing, and the beats pushed in to make the scene, as they say. A jukebox blared the beatniks' Three Bs: Bach, Bartok and "Bird" (Cool Saxophonist Charlie Parker). Bongo drums pounded out broken rhythms from early afternoon to early morning. Folk singers plunked guitars. Far-out paintings dripped from the walls. Ancient, rump-ruptured couches, rescued from the city dump, decorated the floor, and in the center of the room stood...
Though De Gaulle did not use the phrase "self-determination," that seemed clearly his meaning. Such a development would be anathema to French rightists who have loudly insisted on complete "integration" of Algeria into France and who, so far, have been able to veto any more liberal solution to the rebellion. But last week, with all Paris caught up in enthusiasm for Ike and convinced-overoptimistically-that Ike had promised U.S. support to De Gaulle's new plan, rightist outcries were uncharacteristically restrained...
...this chorus of self-accusation, no voice carried so much weight as that of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. In a nationwide radio address, Adenauer offered deep expressions of regret to "the likable Polish people," admitted that "Hitler Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland and cruelly destroyed it." But today's Germany, he insisted, "is quite another Germany from that under Hitler ... It is therefore that I say from deep conviction that this Germany, the new Germany, will some day be a good neighbor of Poland...
...ties but moderate policies, Issa prodded the Italians into their promise of early independence. But then Haji Mohammed Hussein, an oldtime nationalist rabble-rouser whose oratory once made Somalis whip off their scarves in frenzy and fling them into the air, arrived back in Mogadiscio from four years' self-imposed exile as one of Nasser's Cairo broadcasters. Almost at once Haji Mohammed formed a Greater Somali League to rival Issa's Somali Youth League, and charged that Issa favored a Little Somalia, confined to Italian Somaliland, because he feared his Hawiya tribe would be swamped...
...fathometer depth sounder for amateur fishermen, which flashes a red signal when a small boat passes over a fish, was put on sale by Raytheon Co. The device, small enough for use on a canoe or raft, sends out ultrasonic signals that fish cannot hear, is powered by a self-contained battery...