Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eyed Japanese who wanted an answer to a petition in which they begged information on their missing relatives Derevyanko sneaked into the embassy by the back door, later sent an interpreter out to deal with the crowd. He got the petitioners to disperse on promise of an answer this week...
...Last week in Washington, the Foreign Policy Association, taking note of the big postwar crop of military coups, reported "the persisting feeling that, in practice, recent U.S. policy has redounded to the advantage of repressive regimes in Latin America." Bogotá's newspaper; El Liberal went much further. "Formerly," it said, "the fundamental condition to be an ally of the U.S. was to be democratic; now it is to be anti-Russian. The old democratic friends of the U.S. are now criticized as pro-Russian." Right or wrong, these and other Latin American views would once more be assured...
When shaggy-haired William Alexander Bustamante tours the Jamaican countryside, field hands from the cane and banana plantations crowd around him singing a native song called We Will Follow-Bustamante Till We Die. Last week it was clear that the chorused pledge was something more than a catchy calypso lyric. In the British island's general election, Bustamante and his Labor Party squeezed back into power for a second five-year term. It was Bustamante's faithful plantation workers, overpowering the heavy urban vote rolled up by the rival socialist People's National Party, who saved...
...formal presentation at the Casa Rosada last week, Sylvia was accompanied by Ambassador Griffis and his second in command, Lester Mallory. While the dogs made friends, Evita expressed her thanks and leveled a gay shaft at Grass Widower Griffis.* "Now that you have found a wife for Tambour," she smiled archly, "I shall have to find you a wife among our descamisadas...
...This world will at last come into a time of peace," the Premier of Alberta said last week. "The earth will be as full of the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover...