Word: timed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been all wet. Somehow or other, so much of Poland's livestock had been shipped to market last season that the country was fresh out of meat. Such belated measures as rationing meat and importing 20,000 tons of Soviet beef had not ended the meat shortage (TIME, Oct. 12), and last week, as the crisis got worse, Communist Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka and his ministers were trying every desperate trick. They convicted 101 official state slaughterers of black-marketing in the Warsaw area, arrested 88 "meat speculators" at Lodz. More ominously, they decreed that the country's still...
...Royal Navy; where the smuggler Mr. Thomas Benson, M.P., fired on all ships that did not dip their flags; and where a family called Heaven once ruled a kingdom of the same name. The islanders still point to the treacherous rocks that surround them and gleefully tell of the time a great galleon of the Spanish Armada went aground, or of where His Majesty's proud new battleship Montagu piled up in 1906. Aside from "bluebottles"-the island's name for tourists-the Lundyites do not like outsiders to get too close...
...cabbage that now grows nowhere else, or to catch a glimpse of a puffin, an auk, a rare peregrine falcon, or any other of the 145 kinds of birds found on Lundy. But as much as anything else, the bluebottles seem to come to spend a little time-and a few puffins-in a place with no taxes, no license laws, no schools (the only child on the island is ten months old), no policemen, no automobiles, no telephones, and apparently only one worry...
...greeted by mobs of black-shirted Africans shouting demands for independence. The King was jostled but kept smiling as the police used tear gas to control the crowd. That night, he broadcast an appeal to the nation: "I am trying, above all, to serve your own interests. The time has come to satisfy the legitimate aspirations of the Congolese, and at the same time avoid the disappointments of uncontrolled evolution . . . Belgium spontaneously and generously calls the Congo to a near independence." One reply, scrawled with chalk on a Stanleyville wall: "Vive le Rot Kasavubu, Au Revoir Baudouin...
Only last month, having for the eighth time condemned the Union for its drastic racial policies, the U.N. General Assembly called on it to begin talks to put South West Africa under the U.N. The Union was piously proclaiming that it was just this kind of "interference" that was to blame for the bloody outbursts that had just been quelled in the South West Africa capital of Windhoek...