Word: mischief
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...weeks the Congo's pro-Western President Joseph Kasavubu had been cooling his heels in a Manhattan hotel room, waiting for the U.N. General Assembly to decide whether to give him the Congo's seat over the violent objections of his prime foe-erratic, mischief-making Patrice Lumumba. When the matter finally came up before the Assembly last week, Ghana led the fight for Lumumba, proposed a motion to adjourn the debate without even considering Kasavubu's case...
There were many who feared the propaganda impact Khrushchev, accusing the U.S. of espionage and aggression, might have in New York. He would certainly make a lot of noise. But in the places around the world where peace was being jeopardized, it was the Russians who were making the mischief. The reputation of the U.N. itself was at issue in the Congo, and it was the Russians who were doing most to queer the act. In this tough moment for the U.N., the U.S. rallied to Hammarskjold's side...
Tentatively, the Russians edged into the situation. Trujillo's Radio Caribe contracted for the services of the Soviet news agency Tass. Two Soviet trade experts arrived in Ciudad Trujillo to see what political mischief they could make...
...tauntingly offered to assist Jack Kennedy in writing the platform's wide-open civil rights promises into law. Huffed Kennedy's press secretary, Pierre Salinger: "If Senator Keating will read the Democratic platform, he will find the bulk of it relates to executive action." With party mischief a certainty, the special session may become a bruising boomerang for Kennedy and Johnson...
...From the law the Lord handed down to Moses from Sinai (Exodus 21:22-25): "If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according to the woman's husband will lay upon him: and he shall pay as the judges determine. And if any mischief follow, then thou shall give life for life. Eye for eye. tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe...