Word: 1940s
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Finally, all the talk about the Serb forces controlling the hilltops like latter-day Chetniks implies an invidious comparison between what the Nazis were trying to do in the 1940s and what the United Nations ought to be doing today. Hitler was bent on conquering Yugoslavia, while the West should be saving the remnants of that country from the consequences of the end of communism...
...hard to imagine that much of scientific interest would be left in the once pristine jungles of Vietnam, site of almost uninterrupted warfare from the 1940s through the mid-'70s. The conflict with the U.S., with its carpet- bombing and wholesale spraying of Agent Orange, was especially devastating. Thus it was something of a surprise that the first scientific foray deep into the Vu Quang Nature Reserve, near Laos, found what amounts to a "lost world" of animal and plant species...
Ruth Hibbard Romer, a founder of the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) who helped reform the city's government in the early 1940s, died Saturday morning in a nursing home in Leeds, Mass...
Roosevelt's G.I. Bill has given $69 billion in education funding to over 20 million veterans, active-duty military members and reservists. And its inception in the 1940s launched the beginnings of Harvard's own financial aid system, according to Director of Financial Aid James S. Miller...
Savior politics occurs when distrust of the electoral system reaches a point where only a simple "truth teller" can put an end to the suspicion. The pervasive fear of communists in the late 1940s and early '50s bred many petty "saviors" who were going to rescue Hollywood, or the radio industry, or publishing. MacArthur and McCarthy were the supersaviors atop this pyramid of subordinate redeemers...