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Word: toed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spilled Beer. The Windhoek riot was the sixth major one to erupt in Union territory this year, and like all the others, it was the direct result of the whites' measures to keep the blacks in their place. A few miles outside Windhoek, the government is completing a $5...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH WEST AFRICA: Unhappy Mandate | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

Stunned by the tactics of the Congo leaders, De Schrijver told Parliament in Brussels that independence might be possible in 1960, after all. giving in to Kasavubu's demands for direct national elections early in the year. Hours after De Schrijver made his new offer, the 29-year-old...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Bumps in Freedom Road | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

Landing at Stanleyville in the eastern Congo, he was 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Bumps in Freedom Road | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

South West Africa is a big (318,000 sq. mi.), largely treeless land that once belonged to imperial Germany and now has the unhappy distinction of being the last of the League of Nations mandates. Other such territories are either free or have been placed under U.N. trusteeship; but the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH WEST AFRICA: Unhappy Mandate | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH WEST AFRICA: Unhappy Mandate | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

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