Word: topmost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through the two years of terror, probably no Englishman in Kenya was more sympathetic to the problems and irritations besetting the Kikuyu than sixtyish Arundel Gray Leakey, a resident of Kenya for close to half a century. Like his better-known cousin, L.S.B. Leakey, the world's topmost authority on Kikuyu manners and morals and official interpreter at the trial of Mau Mau Chieftain Jomo Kenyatta, Gray Leakey had been accepted into the Kikuyu tribe as a "blood brother" and spoke the native language as readily as he did English. Refusing to believe that Mau Mau would harm either...
...These small-fry complaints (and the big treatment they got) were the visible signs of a great internal problem which was besetting Russia's topmost leaders last week. Russia's vast new emergency farm program was going badly. The outcome may well determine the future of Nikita Khrushchev, the Communist Party secretary who in one year has risen so high that he now stands side by side with Premier Georgy Malenkov in a diumvirate ruling Soviet Russia...
...Pretty Tune. The typewriter's future was obscure in its infancy. Not even Inventor Sholes had faith in it. But Promoter James Densmore. like Sholes a former newspaperman, believed in it "from the topmost corner of my hat to the bottommost head of the nails of my boot heels." He wanted to play Sholes' "literary piano" to the tune of a million dollars...
Most military officers ordered to Washington share the common problem of finding a place to live in the jampacked city. The topmost brass, however, is supposed to be an exception: ranking generals and admirals are provided with comfortable, government-owned quarters, staffed with enlisted servants. But in the postwar star-burst of promotions, even the high command began to develop a housing headache. Last week it turned into a top-level crisis that shook the Pentagon to its highest council chambers and had the nation's foremost military men scurrying around Washington, grabbing houses like kids in a game...
...Repealed the "use it or lose it" leave law, and restored the right of Government workers to accumulate up to 60 days' annual leave. At the same time the bill prohibits 500 of the topmost Government officials from collecting cash settlements for unused vacations...