Word: takeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since 1955, when Russia's Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin swept into Kabul after a whirlwind tour of India, the Afghan government has developed a talent for taking with both hands from both sides in the cold war. From Russia come military instructors, heavy tanks, MIG fighter planes and Ilyushin jet bombers. To Russia go hundreds of young Afghans for training as pilots and mechanics. In the country's northern provinces, Soviet aid is transforming potholed Afghan roads into paved superhighways, including one that runs from the Russian railheads and ports on the Oxus River 390 miles south...
...Koreans are unwilling exiles. Loudly insisting that at least 120,000 of the Koreans in Japan yearn to go to Communist North Korea, Soren has repeatedly demanded mass repatriation as "a basic human right." Last February, after the North Korean government grandly chimed in with an offer to take in all of Japan's Korean residents at once, the Japanese government surrendered to temptation. Shrugging off the Communist propaganda triumph that seemed certain to result, Tokyo announced that any Korean who really wanted to go to North Korea could...
...weeks ago, Villeda Morales joined Tegucigalpa Archbishop Emilio Morales Roque in dedicating the nation to both the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary-making his the first government anywhere to take the two pledges simultaneously.* Since then, a task force of more than 100 priests has traveled the jungles of southern Honduras on a "Holy Mission": bringing the sacraments to a neglected people...
...campaign to keep the city's schools lily-white, Editor Ashmore became a rallying point for Southern moderates, won a Pulitzer Prize for his calm editorial voice. Last week, surveying Little Rock's now-peaceful school scene, Harry Ashmore, 43, announced that he is leaving to take on a new job as consultant to the Fund for the Republic's Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara, Calif...
...Hypnotic Eye-Demara plays a doctor, plus eight bit parts-he decided that Hollywood was not for him. "The technical adviser hates me. And they are paying me peanuts. There is a huge power vacuum in this place. A smart guy could just walk in and take over." As for The Great Impostor, the movie that Universal International plans to produce from the bestseller about his life, Demara complained that he got only $4,000 ("I've been had"), and that Tony Curtis was completely miscast in the hero's role. Hollywood, which has always instinctively taken impostors...