Word: solomon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state of near rebellion over the government's proclamation of Sinhala, the language spoken by the 6,750,000-strong Buddhist majority, as the official tongue of the land. Although the controversial "Sinhala Only" law was passed in 1956 under the administration of the late Prime Minister Solomon West Ridgeway Bias Bandaranaike, it was his energetic widow Sirimavo who first set out to enforce it early this year. In the Northern and Eastern provinces where the Tamils are concentrated, government offices were picketed, government vehicles blocked by Tamils lying down in the roadways before them. With local administration paralyzed...
...Norway. Stanford Ph.D. ('23) Frances Willis was the Foreign Service's first career woman to become an ambassador (to Switzerland in 1953), will find in Ceylon another woman who has risen high in a normally male domain: Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike, widow of the late Prime Minister Solomon West Ridgway Bias Bandaranaike, who has exhibited a mind of her own in leading Ceylon down the neutralist path...
Fanatic Monk. Prime Minister Mrs. Bandaranaike took charge of Ceylon's destinies last summer after an election campaign largely given over to tearful eulogies of her much-loved husband, Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike, who, after three years as Prime Minister, was assassinated in 1959 by a fanatic Buddhist monk. The widow brought to her job a mystical devotion to the vaguely left-wing ideals of her slain husband, as well as a deep Buddhist piety, personal honesty and considerable intelligence. She has also proved surprisingly tough, refusing to back down in the face of opposition, and ruthlessly whipping...
...quickly as you can." The stripling volunteers have shouldered responsibilities that would turn a grownup grey-or green with envy. In Sarawak, a 19-year-old boy, lately a factory apprentice, is in sole charge of a primary school, a first-aid clinic and a rubber plantation. In the Solomon Islands, one pink-cheeked girl recently delivered a native woman's twins. In British Guiana, a 19-year-old is the only white person within 50 miles, does everything from mending Amerindians' canoes to teaching sewing to women...
After seating himself on his portable aluminum throne ("not ivory, like Solomon's but something even Solomon couldn't get"), Tomlinson told his audience that he had 153 million followers who wanted "peace on earth...