Word: standing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...manner she grows increasingly queenly. Not long ago a palace official who has known her since childhood leaned his arm on a mantel in Her Majesty's presence. "Are you tired?" she asked. He replied: "No, ma'am. Why?" Said Elizabeth: "Because I think you should stand up straight when you are talking to me." She runs her royal household strictly-and with a clear awareness of the consequences of her acts. Last week she chose a new equerry: Ghana's Major Joseph Edward Michel, 52, the first Negro ever to join royal inner circles...
...refuses the vote to the 80% of its citizens who are colored. Commonwealth nations have jailed members of their own Parliaments, suppressed newspapers, and in one case (Pakistan) abolished Parliament, deported the President, and imposed military rule. Said a British professor: "About the only thing we can't stand is being beaten by one of them at cricket...
...though it had found a "beloved uncle arrested for rape." In this crisis Canada put preservation of the Commonwealth above affection for the mother country, and at the United Nations joined the U.S. in pressing for a ceasefire. With Australia and New Zealand backing Britain, Canada's stand reassured the Asian members of the Commonwealth, may well have prevented a disastrous split between the group's white and nonwhite members...
DEFENSE. The leaders of the newly free Afro-Asian countries were farseeing enough to realize that the world outside was cold and forbidding, too gale-swept by war and ideology for them to stand alone. By linking up with Great Britain, the newcomers could make their piping voices heard in the councils of the world. They are further drawn to the Commonwealth because "we don't want to shake off British imperialism merely to replace it with Russian or Chinese...
...request she called him "Wolf." The only thing that troubled Mimi was that Wolf would never put down his riding crop. Then one golden day they got out of the car and romped in the meadows like children. Leading Mimi to a tall pine, Hitler said: "Just stand there as you are. You're my forest sprite . . . Later you will understand." It was their first stormy kiss. "I was so happy I wished I could die," says Maria. On the way back to the car, Hitler told her that his ideal was to marry and have blond children...