Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shrewd, articulate and widely read, the 69-year-old king notably enhanced his country's chances for a choice inkhululeko (independence) during the long wait. Swaziland has tripled its exports (to $58 million) in the past four years by completing a new, 140-mile railroad and by attracting such faraway customers as Japan, a major buyer of the kingdom's abundant iron ore. Beneath Swaziland's lush valleys and mountains are also gold, coal and asbestos. Cattle herds dot the sloping grassland, and citrus orchards and sugarcane fields flourish. Not the least of Swaziland's assets...
...trouble deciding which he liked best, the organ or baseball. "He'd be having a game in the park across the street," his mother remembers, "and he'd call Time!' and run into the house and play a couple of songs on the organ. Everybody would have to wait for him, and he'd play so loud they all could hear him." Says Denny: "I practiced on that organ every night. Sure, I knew a lot of people thought it was a sissified thing to do, and I beat up a lot of guys who said it out loud...
...Italy during World War II, Inouye was particularly attuned to the problems of another U.S. minority, the blacks, "whose aspirations have burst fullblown on us after more than 100 years of systematic racist deprivation." Asked Inouye: "Is it any wonder that Negroes find it hard to wait another hundred years before they are accepted as full citizens in our free society...
...Robert Kennedy, who, as everyone had pointed out, would wait four more years-but then rushed into the race after McCarthy's victory. Not Lyndon Johnson, who, as practically everyone had" been betting, would run again-but who then announced his abdication and partial de-escalation in Viet Nam. (Everyone had learned to expect such sudden surprises from 1968, and from L.B.J., that till the last moment there was doubt if he really meant...
...federal army all too often advances only on roads, and by day, and sometimes takes its afternoons off from fighting. When the federal troops attack, their strategy is to saturate Biafran positions with wanton bursts of 76- and 90-mm. artillery fire, move forward quickly, then dig in and wait for the artillery to catch up. Such tactics, or at least the attitude behind them, are not confined to Nigeria's federal troops; they are commonplace with most African armies. Moreover, federal commanders have built up an army to match the scale of their weapons orders ?almost a tenfold...