Word: soloed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...snare-drum player should really play his little solo like Fred Astaire dances!" ("Oh!" wailed a drummer...
...Indonesia might worry about the final count in the new recent nip-and-tuck election: the women were far more exercised about "that woman of Solo...
Soekarno met Hartini in 1953 during a ceremonial visit to Solo, in Central Java. Long before, according to the outraged ladies, Hartini had been only intermittently attentive to her husband and five children. In the months that followed, Hartini was rarely at home, and Indonesian society clattered with talk of the President's clandestine romance. A year ago, a leading women's organization circulated a letter to women's clubs charging that Soekarno had married his girl. Only then did Soekarno admit that he had taken Hartini as a second wife in June 1954, and claimed that...
Even then the women might have subsided if Hartini had been content to accept the modest status of second wife. But she briskly moved her whole Solo household and her five children into Bogor Palace, began to entertain old friends, receive officials and carry on for all the world like Indonesia's First Lady, while Fatmawati shrank into the background. Whenever Soekarno traveled, Hartini traveled with...
...limited home rule, already rejected by the Greek Cypriots, and made the mistake of inviting the Turks to join him and the Greeks in London. In his first few months in office, Macmillan had disappointed many who had expected good things of him. The Cyprus case, his first solo venture in diplomacy, represented a chance to recoup. But the Foreign Secretary made no advance soundings of either the Greeks or the Turks, was taken by surprise when the Turks took a vehemently strong position against any hint of eventual self-determination and even against Macmillan's gesture toward home...