Word: africa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Atomic Energy, warned the House of Commons to plan now for civilian defense in an atomic war. Shop counters were piled high with oranges and lemons (the British had foresightedly cleared the bulk of the Palestine citrus crops before beginning troop withdrawals). Fruits and vegetables were arriving from South Africa. But the average Briton was still plagued with shortages. He was limited to a shillingsworth of meat (tuppence of it in corned beef), and fats and soap were hard to find. The current music-hall gag on the subject: "The soap ration doesn't worry me-with the food...
...pressed for lowering of tariffs, abolition of quantitative restrictions (i.e., fixing of how much of certain goods a nation could buy or sell), the breakup of tight little barter and preference blocs. .But the "backward" nations of Asia, Africa and Latin America insisted that, unless their fledgling industries were protected by fences, they would forever remain merely cheap sources of bananas, coffee or jute for the more highly industrialized nations. The delegates of these "backward" nations pointed out that it was only the protective tariff which had made 19th Century America so rich that it could afford to oppose protection...
...oldest operations in medical history. Some half a million years ago, Stone Age medicine men were treating their patients by trephining (cutting out a circular piece of the skull). Evidence of their flint-knife gouging can still be seen in prehistoric skulls. Witch doctors in Melanesia and northern Africa still perform similar operations to cure insanity (a hole in the head is a handy exit for demons...
...High Cost of Rhythm. He once described himself as a seaplane which needed the old masters as pontoons for his own takeoff; it would have been more correct to call the old masters one pontoon and non-European art the other. Like Delacroix, he had visited North Africa and returned with a lasting predilection for harem props and paraphernalia. Unlike the earlier Frenchman, he found an ancient way of seeing as well...
...pope, born in South Africa and educated in Dublin (Trinity College), views the world editorially with a gently Tory tolerance. A bulky, dignified man Casey likes claret, canes, conversation and clubs (his favorite: the stage-minded Garrick). He had planned to retire this year to return to playwriting, his real love. How long did he think he could last in the strenuous editor's job? Says Casey, who is 63: "Three to five years, I should think...