Word: woking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus, to the sound of guns, Angola woke from its sleep of centuries. Angola's dream world was founded on the fond Portuguese belief that there was no bitterness between white and black because there was no discrimination. Any black man in the colony who could learn to speak good Portuguese and adopt the white man's ways could acquire "assimilated status" with all the rights of a citizen of the Portuguese republic. Only some 40,000 of Angola's 4,300,000 blacks have achieved assimilation...
...frontier boy in ante-bellum Kansas, Cody seems to have gone to five schools, to none for very long, fell into the company of badmen called the Jay-hawkers, stole horses, developed a taste for "tanglefoot," and woke up with a hangover in the Union Army. Scholar Russell is well dug in behind about 500 footnotes and a bibliography of 259 items, but perhaps the reader should look for the odd bits: the unforgettable character who used his slain enemy's ear as a watch fob; the horse thief who won Bill's admiration by running 18 miles...
...Saigon's yellow stucco Freedom Palace, South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem woke with a start. Mortar shells were falling on the lawn, and paratroopers were assaulting the palace gate...
Private Show. Underneath her New England reserve, Maggie Smith has a scintillating wit. Some ten years ago, when a radio commentator asked what she would do if she woke up in the White House, she twanged right back: "I'd go straight to Mrs. Truman and apologize. Then I'd go home." She also nurses old grudges (e.g., the Smith vendetta against the promotion of Actor James Stewart to be an Air Force brigadier general), sometimes writes tart notes to erring constituents. She shuns the Washington social whirl, lives quietly in a three-apartment building in suburban Silver...
...founding of the United Nations approached in 1945, the old organization suddenly woke up, thanks to a capable Colombian named Alberto Lleras Camargo (now the President of Colombia). In Mexico City, delegates agreed with Lleras that they should not turn over their powers of collective action to the U.N. At San Francisco the Latin Americans delayed two weeks until the right of regional self-defense was written into Article 51 of the U.N. Charter, which subsequently became the basis of NATO...