Word: westing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could do this by the end of the year . . . That still remains my position." In other words, Ike wished that De Gaulle would change his mind, but was not going to twist his arm. Advised one senior U.S. official: "Relax. Neither a Western pre-summit nor an East-West summit is going to be held very soon unless De Gaulle changes his mind...
...French classmates because she had "such a lot of heart and sensitivity," Farah comes from a well-to-do Iranian family and is distantly related to weepy ex-Premier Mohammed Mossadegh, who briefly dethroned the Shah in 1953. Her father, an army officer trained at St. Cyr, the West Point of France, died ten years ago of tuberculosis; her mother Farida is a handsome and Westernized woman, who wears Givenchy clothes and belongs to a progressive women's club in Teheran...
When the immigrant ship Castel Felice docked in Melbourne one breezy day last week, 63 suntanned German girls paraded down the gangplank. Like 74 "flying fraeu-leins" who arrived by chartered plane a few days earlier, they were marriageable girls brought in from West Germany by the Australian government at the demand of members of a powerful new Australian pressure group: bachelors, among the thousands of European immigrants, who have a hard time finding someone to marry in a sparsely settled land where men still outnumber women...
...fight the advancing Russians, Bandera set up headquarters in Berlin, while Ukrainian partisans once again fought both the Wehrmacht and the Red army in a vain effort to carve a free Ukraine out of the confusion at war's end. To avoid Russian agents, he fled to West Germany in 1945, but shuttled back and forth in various disguises between Munich and the Ukraine, bringing encouragement and funds to the partisan army, which fought on for four more years before being finally subdued by the Soviets. (Stalin's vice-lord for suppressing the Ukrainians: Nikita Khrushchev...
...Yoruba tribesmen gazed unbelievingly at the strange men who tumbled out of the sky to make speeches and hand out toy balloons. Curious Hausa merchants applauded politely, as jabbering loudspeaker trucks moved slowly through the ancient city of Kano. Independence is coming next year to Britain's big West African colony, the most heavily populated country on the continent. And next month, Nigeria (pop. 35.7 million) will choose its first national government...