Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. A. Cecil Snyder, 51, Baltimore-born Chief Justice (1953-57) of Puerto Rico's Supreme Court, who helped draft Puerto Rico's commonwealth status, as district attorney convicted (1936) Nationalist Party Boss Albizu Campos of trying to overthrow the U.S. Government; of a heart attack; near San Juan...
...Embankment apartments were occupied by the Nationalist army, which took over the top two floors, including the penthouse, for the placement of sandbags and machine guns. The tenants were moved to the lower floor, and it was here that a stand was made for about two days, just about the only serious conflict between Nationalists and Communists during Shanghai's occupation...
...traveled 80,000 miles, far more than any other monarch in history. In 1954 she survived the loyal ecstasy of a million Australians in Sydney, who broke police lines eight times to surround the royal motorcade, shouting "Good on you, Liz and Phil!" She went to Ceylon even though nationalist agitators collected 150,000 signatures asking her to stay away. In Nigeria, without blinking, she watched the fiery charge of thousands of spear-waving warriors and accepted the homage of such local chieftains as the Rwang Pam of Birom, the Atta of Igala...
LANGUAGE. Many of the new nationalist leaders are more fluent in English, the lingua franca of the Commonwealth, than in their native tongues...
...last seven years,"the Red Chinese have applied every conceivable pressure to force the International Olympic Committee to recognize them as the only representatives of China. They boycotted sessions attended by Nationalist China representatives, withdrew their athletes from events in which Nationalists were entered, finally stalked out of the I.O.C. itself. Soviet Russia and other Communist satellites added their weight. Last week, at the annual meeting in Munich, I.O.C. delegates caved in, voted to expel the Nationalists as the first step toward accepting Red China as "the representative of China." If the Nationalists wanted to reapply as representatives of Formosa...