Word: whitely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most powerful parliamentary speeches of his career, white-thatched old (72) Ben-Gurion, dressed in his familiar open-necked shirt, assailed his critics for deliberately stirring up anti-German feeling. He cited Cabinet minutes to show that the leftist parties' leaders approved last December the deal they now denounced as "selling arms to the devil...
...Laos last week 600 schoolchildren wearing white shirts and black berets marched through the puddled streets of Vientiane in the first "antivice" drive in Laotian history. They carried "good'' banners, hailing the three Rs of "Revolution, Roads and Rice,'' and "bad'' banners condemning equally Communism, opium, prostitution, gambling and liquor. General Ouane Rattinkoun, 34, the Laotian chief of staff, watched approvingly as the bad banners were heaped in a pile, doused with gasoline and set afire. General Ouane. who has a Buddhist horror of going to extremes, says, "There is no question of making...
Sukarno appeared totally unconcerned at a reception in his splendid white palace on the evening of his arrival. Sitting on a brocaded sofa, he chatted with politicians and children, completely ignored General Nasution and his restive colonels across the room...
...local residents without discrimination," and to allow visiting (but not resident) Negroes in rooms. Most smaller hotels, nightclubs and restaurants followed suit; movie theaters abandoned segregated seating. Bermuda's 28,000 Negroes (in a population of 45,000) won their new gains through a boycott of movie houses. White Bermudians decided it was better to make concessions than to provoke racial conflict that would damage the island's reputation as a tourist spot...
...half a century, The Netherlands' devout ex-Queen Wilhelmina, 78, has devoutly considered Amsterdam's good, grey Algemeen Handelsblad a routine part of breakfast. But recently, Wilhelmina leafed through her favorite newspaper and was shocked, on the Dutch religious holiday known as White Thursday, to find Nikita Khrushchev depicted in successive panels of a political cartoon as an angel of peace and, in turn, a fanged monster. It was all supposed to demonstrate how Khrushchev has posed as both do-gooder and demon in waging his war of nerves over West Berlin. But it was too sacrilegious...