Word: staking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jomo has a personal stake in the struggle: his own freedom. Governor Renison -who once described Kenyatta as "a leader to darkness and death"-has agreed to move Jomo soon to a more pleasant location in the Kenya highlands, but still in confinement. In London, British Colonial Secretary Iain Macleod backed Renison's stand in Parliament...
...members conceded that Verwoerd, at the end of the communique, might say a few words in rebuttal. At stake, as all were aware, was the unity of the Commonwealth-an informal association that (including colonies and dependencies) covers one-fourth of the earth, carries on one-fourth of world trade and contains one-fourth of the world's people, 86 million whites and 600 million coloreds...
Sullivan said that by his action, Kennedy had denied the real issue at stake--that of home rule. "He has insulted the Cambridge City Council--he is fighting them on the state level," he asserted. "What's he got against the politicians in Cambridge...
...stake in the war was the codfish-an ugly inhabitant of the North Atlantic that lingers lazily at the bottom of the ocean, spawns furiously and brings Iceland $59.3 million a year. Until June 1958, the schools of cod that lurked in the open sea more than four miles from Iceland's rocky coast were fair game for anyone. Every year British trawlers hovered off Iceland's coast outside the four-mile limit, scooping up enough cod to make up 50% of their distant-water catch...
...knew he was taking on a post that could break or make a politician. Last week African nationalists, white settlers and a sizable bloc of Tory M.P.s all had a try at breaking Macleod in a bitter fight over the political future of racially divided Northern Rhodesia. At stake, along with Macleod's neck, is survival of the entire Central African Federation, a wobbly, three-state union as big as Texas, California and New York...