Word: takeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CRIMSON for censuring the "little" magazines, "simply by reason of their appearance." A quick check through our files reveals the "little magazines" around the Square have a pretty good critical win-loss record, a better batting average, indeed, than some people feel they should have. Finally Edmunds seems to take great hope in a perhaps-mythical magazine called General Babo's Gazette and Carburator (sic), which has some of the finest unconscious press agents in town. He notes that perhaps General Babo will get a critical panning because of "the inevitable weaknesses of its contents." Can he suggest some more...
...argued unsuccessfully for Navy appropriations on a basis of Navy need as he saw it, rather than percentage of the overall four-service defense budget; 2) he offered stubborn resistance to President Eisenhower's Defense Reorganization Act on the ground that it would sap service secretaries' powers, take Navy units out of Navy control. When the act passed last year, Gates's disappointment and his determination to get home to Philadelphia became an open Pentagon secret...
...Saudi Arabia, and political meetings in Guinea come to a halt at sundown, when everyone troops out, shucks shoes, and bows to Mecca. Throughout most of Africa the ubiquitous East Indian minority, tirelessly busy at trade and commerce, has also left its mark: the "European" towns of East Africa take more after Bombay than after any city in Europe. In Kenya a member of the Legislative Council may rise to speak, dressed in a skirt shaped after his Luo tribal costume of skins, but a flunky in knee britches and silver buckles carries a mace, as in the Mother...
...rather useful and amusing gimmick in college"), Nyerere is a comparative moderate who is willing to wait all of six years for independence from Britain, says of his own future: "When I make a great kelele [Swahili for disturbance], I am cheered to the echo. But when we take over the government, my troubles will begin. It will be but a matter of time before I find that I am unable to deliver the goods I may have promised out of political expediency. Then the head of Julius Nyerere will roll...
Peru last week suffered the standard South American ailments: a big deficit, a puff of inflation. Unions pressed for higher wages, and an executive of one of Peru's largest industries growled: "In six months we'll have some army officers walk into the presidential palace and take over...