Word: wente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...warned him to let her alone. In 1947, a judge gave him a three-month suspended sentence on a charge of being a public nuisance. He was arrested again and carted off to a psychiatric examination, but the doctors could find nothing more than the disorders of love. Francesco went back to following his beloved, crying after her, "Darling wife, sweet love, my soul!" When Angela answered "Imbecile!" he would say worriedly, "Have I offended you? I didn't mean...
Patriot's Card. Nehru let Krishna Menon defend himself, and the lean, vinegary minister went swiftly on the offensive. He refused to answer attacks on his integrity or patriotism and snapped: "When the time comes when I have to carry a card of patriotism, it will not be worth it." He taunted those opponents who challenged his qualifications with the acid remark that government ministers, "rightly or wrongly, are not appointed by the opposition." Krishna Menon told Parliament that troop movements toward the border, "consistent with our resources," had taken place, and boasted that Indian armament production had nearly...
When the Indonesian army went right on supervising the removal of Chinese from villages, Communist Chinese Consul Ho An drove out to rural Tjibadak and made a speech comparing Indonesia's actions to Hitler's massacres. Ho then continued on tour through the countryside encouraging the Chinese to resist removal, reminding the Chinese what great support they had given "the thankless Indonesians" in their revolution, and promising Peking's support...
...president of the powerful National Bank of Cuba went Felipe Pazos, 47, ranking Cuban banker, sound-money man, and onetime International Monetary Fund official in Washington. To replace him in Cuba's central bank, Castro named Major Ernesto ("Che")* Guevara, 31, the Red physician, who thereby got vast power over Cuba though he is Argentine born and bred...
...back on their heels. He merely reaffirmed Panama's "titular sovereignty" over the zone (as William Howard Taft had done 50 years before) and promised that zone commissaries would adopt a policy of buying only U.S. or Panamanian products-as soon as "normal conditions" were restored. Then he went home, leaving Panama to face the prospect of a mob action all too likely to be turned back on the "oligarchs" themselves...