Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...African nationalism. But many of the men in his government, especially the northerners, ran roughshod. The government was widely suspected of tampering with the 1963 census figures to ensure northern control in the federal parliament. In 1962, it jailed Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the anti-north Premier of the Western Region, and installed its own man, Chief Akintola, in his place. So blatantly did it rig the 1964 national elections that the leading Western Region party boycotted them and the Eastern Region threatened to secede...
What brought things to a head were elections last October in the Western Region. Chief Akintola had labels switched on ballot boxes, prevented opposition candidates from running, even reversed local vote counts to give his party a lopsided victory despite a hostile electorate. A wave of violence immediately broke out, and the wave became a flood. Political riots and assassinations have taken more than 150 lives in the past three months. Gunmen of the opposition Action Group ranged the roads, stopping cars and trucks and demanding money for the party. Police, unable to control them, warned motorists to stay...
Indira's taste in music runs from native Indian to Western classical. She keeps abreast of modern trends in art and literature, tries to pop into all new art exhibits in New Delhi, and went to a reading of Beat poetry when she was in London last year...
...Delicacy. By Western standards, sailfish and marlin are practically inedible. Even the Japanese can think of nothing better to do with the coarse oily sailfish than grind it up into fish sausages. But marlin is considered a delicacy in meat-short Japan, where it is served fried or raw-garnished with soy sauce and horseradish to make a dish called sashimi...
...that the problem should be that foreign to Americans. A Western sandwich isn't a Western out West: it's a Denver. California hamburgers are called doubleburgers in California; baked Alaskas are almost unheard of in Alaska; the grass is not blue in Kentucky; and in New York, a New York cut is called a boneless sirloin...