Word: statesman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...introducing Turkish troops on the island for the first time since the Ottoman Turks turned over the island to Disraeli in 1878, Menderes had proven the harder bargainer. In making hard concessions in the interest of peace, at the risk of criticism at home, Karamanlis had shown himself a statesman...
...slightest sign that he has given up hope of one day living at 10 Downing Street. But no one could have taken issue with the straightness of the second part. Probably not since Wilberforce has Britain had a more dedicated reformer, and last week, from the leftist New Statesman ("Here it is at last-and no anticlimax either") to the conservative Economist ("The Home Office deserves unstinting congratulations"), the press was singing his praises. Reason: Rab Butler's long-awaited White Paper on the condition of Britain's major prisons...
Radiant Housewife Margaret Truman Daniel confirmed the rumor: some time next June Elder Statesman Harry Truman should become a grandfather for the second time...
...formative years of his youth in northern Luzon, returned to the Philippines as an Army officer in World War II, has kept close ties with the islands ever since. One of the men whose friendship Bell most cherished was the Philippines' late, loved President Ramon Magsaysay-an incorruptible statesman who never found any difficulty in combining deep pride in being a Filipino with unshakable affection...
Chief Obafemi Awolowo, 49, of the powerful Yoruba tribe, dedicated, teetotaling Prime Minister of the Western Region of Nigeria who began as a barrister, has gradually emerged as a statesman of integrity in a land where charges of corruption are the political order of the day. His fellow Prime Minister to the more populous but primitive north, the Sardauna of Sokoto, is a haughty Moslem nobleman out of another century. Nigeria's other regional Prime Minister, the demagogic, U.S.-educated Nnamdi ["Zik"] Azikiwe of the Ibo tribe to the east, lives under a cloud as a result...