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Word: willful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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In the backwoods of Western Nigeria last week, 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGERIA: Electioneering in the Bush | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

Helicopters & Trinkets. Awolowo's Action Group is fighting all out to beat this powerful combine. By far the best organized and disciplined party in the country, its slick politicking is worthy of the U.S. pressagents Awolowo has hired to steer his campaign. He and his aides sail through the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGERIA: Electioneering in the Bush | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

Nishio's walkout will probably make it easier for Kishi to push through the Diet the revised security treaty that U.S. and Japanese diplomats are curently negotiating, and that Premier Kishi hopes to sign on a forthcoming visit to the U.S.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Sundered Socialists | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

Gazing into his crystal ball in Raleigh, N.C., New York's ex-Democratic Governor W. Averell Harriman, 67, no longer a presidential candidate, predicted with no ifs or buts that Vice President Richard Nixon will be next year's Republican nominee: "He's going to get nominated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 2, 1959 | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

A London auctioneer this week will hawk some love letters written by England's King George IV, most of them quilled to Maria Anne Fitzherbert, a widow six years his senior, who became his morganatic wife. Aside from their slushiness, the romantic epistles are historically interesting in graphically demonstrating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 2, 1959 | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

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