Word: welling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Presence" U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold believes in doing good by stealth. He has succeeded in unobtrusively widening the powers of his office by quiet persuasion in private, and by the courage to make imaginative leaps of authority, which he disguises in dull prose. He also considers his jumps well, and has an instinct for not going too far. Without formal instructions from General Assembly or Security Council, he sent a personal representative to be watchdog (a U.N. "presence," he preferred to call it) to Jordan in 1958, one to Thailand to settle a boundary dispute with Cambodia, and another...
...finished goods, are slowly pushing private merchants out of business. Each Sunday, workers are induced "voluntarily" to build roads, schools and clinics in a scheme grandly titled "Human Investment," and Touré is working hard to rip up tribal roots and create a Guinea nationalism. By requiring English as well as French instruction in schools, he hopes to create a bilingual nation that one day can lead both English-and French-speaking West Africa. Such a nation, Touré was insisting last week, would not be Communist, as his enemies and some of his old friends are beginning to fear...
...that Queen Damali was to be confined incommunicado to her room for the present, and would later be exiled to the lonely Sese Islands, 30 miles offshore in Lake Victoria. The assembled advisers were not terribly impressed by the King's evidence, since they-and all Buganda-were well aware that the King wants to divorce Queen Damali so that he could marry his great and good friend, the Queen's unmarried sister Sarah, thus putting Sarah's two children in line for the throne...
...which stressed that even Kings must obey God's commandments and Christ's teachings if they wish to be regarded as Christians. Canceling a ceremonial visit to Parliament because the British Resident, Anthony Richards, would be there (the King is constantly embroiled in quarrels with Britain as well as with his wife, his brother, and the Anglican Church), King Freddie went to a soccer game...
That evening, 50 guests arrived for the traditional birthday cocktail party in the palace grounds, found no one to welcome them and nothing to drink. Inside the palace, the troubled King was listening to two paramount chiefs as well as the father of both his wife and of his sweetheart Sarah. They urged him to reconsider his hasty action against Queen Damali. Prince Juko, far from being cast into a cell for a crime in the shrubbery, was gaily taking part in all the birthday celebrations. The consensus in Buganda was that Queen Damali had been framed and that...