Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Surly Refusal. After the deserts blossom again. President Eisenhower said, the world might see an "Arab renaissance," with modern Arab nations making contributions to civilization surpassing the Islamic advances in mathematics, astronomy and medicine during Europe's Middle Ages. Throughout his speech, the President took Arab feeling into account, tried to avoid giving any impression that the U.S. was seeking to dictate to the Arab world. He stressed that the U.S. did not want "a position of leadership" in the regional economic program, that "the goals must be Arab goals," and that Arab peoples "clearly possess the right...
...Trip Wire. In drawing up his plan, Dag Hammarskjold had characteristically proceeded from the existing power realities in the Middle East. To begin with, he had to take into account Arab nationalism; he sought to encourage its legitimate development. He sought to create conditions of stability so that Britain and the U.S. might withdraw their troops while retaining their commercial access to the area. He recognized that while the West had no intention of securing its economic interests indefinitely by the overt use of force, neither did it intend to be deprived of those interests by force...
...took lodgings above a shop that sold nothing much but "black tripe" (the "grey flocculent stuff" and the "ghostly translucent feet of pigs" were kept in a beetle-infested cellar). To get his story, he wandered in and around Wigan (population then a little under 87,000), and the account of these wanderings still makes the reader feel that he has been dragged heels first through a municipal garbage dump. Orwell lived in rooms that smelled "like a ferret's cage" and ate unmentionable meals at tables under which there was sometimes a full chamber pot. Even Louis-Ferdinand...
...shaping of policy. Furthermore, he can, and frequently does, get his instructions changed. He often tells Dulles-or in Dulles' absence, Wilcox-that the course decided upon in Washington is likely to stir reactions or encounter obstacles that the State Department had failed to take into account. Usually Lodge wins his point. Sometimes the "instructions". he gets from Washington are verbatim playbacks of what he wrote out himself. And there are also times when "things happen too fast to rely on specific instructions...
...writing a book in praise of the regime ... these two authors studied and listened to the people among whom they lived. They became achingly aware of the desperate poverty, the cruel indignities, [the] corruption and inequality ... Smuggled in small notebooks into Gibraltar, Reapers of the Storm is their novelized account of Spanish life...