Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...asked Congress to support the new International Development Association, ante up about one-third of its $1 billion capital over the next five years. The rest of IDA's bankroll will be pumped in by rich and poor nations alike. IDA will make longshot loans with a banker's cool eye but will accept payments in soft currencies as well as hard. By 1961 IDA expects to be pumping out some $160 million a year...
...been a long five days since the doctors first called upon the Queen and announced that her third child-the first to be born to a reigning British sovereign since Beatrice, Queen Victoria's last-was due "any moment." Two days later, the birth was still "imminent," but a faint wave of uneasiness had begun to spread across the nation. Then, at lunchtime on Friday, the long-awaited report was issued that all four doctors were once again "in attendance." Finally, a little after 3:30 p.m., Prince Philip burst out of Buckingham Palace's Belgian suite, beaming...
...front of the palace. Others were duly notified in the traditional manner, even if it came as no surprise. A handwritten statement was posted at the Home Office, for by custom the Home Secretary is the "first" to be informed after the royal family; a little later, a third announcement was pinned to the gates of Mansion House, the official residence of the Lord Mayor of London. Throughout the kingdom, church bells pealed, and at Lloyd's the famed Lutine bell was rung twice to signal "good news" already known...
...water a few miles off the coast were a sight to behold. According to legend, the largest and most beautiful they named Royale in honor of their sovereign, King Louis XV. The second was named St. Joseph after the patron saint of their voyage, and the third was named Devil's Island because of the angry sea around it. But when the settlers christened the cluster as a whole, they became the authors of one of history's ironies: they called the group the Islands of Salvation...
...himself to France, stayed there eight years before returning for Peru's 1956 election and his second term. In office this time, he supported France's Algerian policy in the U.N. De Gaulle sees Peru as a diplomatic lever to open doors in South America for his "third world force"-a concept that, in the words of Paris' Le Monde, includes "the affinity between European and South American countries in their common desire not to be crushed between the U.S. and the Soviet Union...