Word: tides
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moderate African leader in Rhodesia realistically offers his people a dollar they do not take much notice of him, for the extremist African leader is offering them a diamond. Promising the Africans everything is a prime source of the extremist' power, but there are other sources. The rising tide of African nationalism is one. Another is the fact that the majority of the Africans in Rhodesia are relatively poor in relation to the Europeans. An extremist can often convince Africans that they have everything to gain and nothing to lose by an immediate take-over of the government...
Orange Scintilla. A few pinpoints of light shone through the all-enveloping shroud. Many areas of Vermont, with nearly 30 individual utility companies, withstood the tide. New Hampshire went black in only two heavily populated western sections. The Lake Placid, N.Y., resort area was saved by the grandiloquently named Paul Smith's Electric Light & Power & Railroad Co. A local generator kept New Haven, Conn., aglow. Such isolated Massachusetts communities as Holyoke, Braintree and Taunton never lost a watt, and windswept Nantucket Island, 30 miles off Cape Cod, kept going with a private power system installed...
Indeed, the only diehard Middle Eastern nation left on the militant left at the moment is Syria, where the ruling socialist Baath Party clearly feels betrayed by the new look. "Arab revolutionaries cannot fail to note the current reactionary tide in the Middle East," said the chief party newspaper in Damascus last week. However the hot heads in Syria might feel, the rest of the Middle East was plainly looking forward to the welcome touch of cooler, quieter political weather...
However, South Africa has the means and may have the will to keep white Rhodesia out of the abyss. It could stabilize Rhodesia's pound and might tide Rhodesian farmers and industrialists over to better times. If worse came to worse, South African troops could quell disorders in Rhodesia...
...British eyes, the only solution was to weld them into a federation with Southern Rhodesia, whose large white police force and greater degree of self-government might quell the cries for kwacha, or independence. It was a scheme worthy of Rhodes, but not even federation could stem the tide. It lasted exactly ten years...