Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Waiting for Jack. As in numerous other Utopian military settlements scattered from Germany to Okinawa, President Eisenhower's order was heard with shocked incredulity at Wiesbaden village. For the villagers themselves, the impact was somewhat cushioned by the discovery that the order does not involve any immediate separation of...
Some officers contend that the result of the presidential order will be a net loss, both in gold and in national security. They warn of a flight from the service by married men unwilling to be parted from their families, and predict that the first to go will be the...
At five minutes before nine the warning bell clanged, and the chattering parliamentarians in the lobby began to file into the House to take their seats. Precisely on the hour, a voice raised the traditional cry "Mistah Speakah," and the legislators froze as a bemedaled attendant solemnly descended the nine...
Along with its echoes of Britain's Westminster, the legislature over which Sir Abubakar presided last week had some of the flavor of a Pan-African Congress. On its benches tall, haughty Hausas, splendidly robed in green and scarlet, sat amongst volatile Ibos draped in white and azure gowns...
In the hurly-burly of 1960's African avalanche of freedom, Nigeria's impressive demonstration of democracy's workability in Africa is too often overlooked. Next-to-newest of the 18 nations* to win independence this year (see p. 23), Nigeria entered the world community without noisy...