Word: 1940s
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Elliott also played an important role in American government during the 1940s. At the beginning of World War II, he served as consultant to the U.S. defense program and after the war, Elliott directed the governmental staff which studied and reported on the economic reconstruction of Europe...
...shape events in Iran is beginning to sap Saudi Arabia's confidence in the ability of the U.S. to protect the region from Soviet penetration, a hazard that some American officials fear is every bit as threatening as the Soviet thrust into Europe of the late 1940s and early 1950s. As a result, the Administration intends to deliver a stern warning to the Soviets through private channels not to exploit the situation...
...presence only when it was too weak to do otherwise. And during the half-century after the first Opium War (1839-42), during the Japanese Occupation of the 1930s and 1940s and during a brief infatuation with the Soviet Union in the 1950s, the Chinese may well have concluded that their prejudices were validated...
...drug culture, opened in August and died in the marketplace within two months. Audiences also wisely avoided Sylvester Stallone's F.I.S.T., a tedious fictionalization of the life of Jimmy Hoffa, and were almost as wary of Paradise Alley, Stallone's futile attempt to re-create sweaty 1940s realism. Convoy, Ali MacGraw's comeback vehicle, did not get rolling, and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, which had all the energy of a wilting lily, never managed to strike up a tune...
Taking note of this right-left difference, Psychologist Werner Wolff of Columbia University suggested in the 1940s that the right side is the "public" face, and the left the "private," registering emotions that are not intended to be conveyed. Yet this strategy of "hiding" unacceptable emotions on the left side of the face could be effective only if the public side had far more impact on the viewer. Wolff found this to be so; after studying the faces of others, subjects in his experiments noted that the right side of the face looked more like the whole face than...