Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Friendly Climate. Busy with the problems of Europe and the cold war, the State Department all but swept Latin America's problems under the rug. The tightly integrated policy of Good Neighbor days had been disposed of in the same way. The constant plugging of democracy (a campaign backed up by U.S. dollars) had been cut to ribbons. With neglect, Latin America's frail democracies tended to wither, and U.S. prestige sank...
...Paul Daniels, head of the State Department's Office of American Republics Affairs. Twenty years as a foreign service officer had made stocky, Andover-and-Yale-bred Paul Daniels an expert on the mechanics of diplomacy, but it had also made him cautious. Moreover, long years in Latin America had made him something less than optimistic about democracy's chances there...
Southern Californians were unconsoled when Jones said that he might enter one of Citation's crack stablemates-Free America-in Santa Anita's $100,000 Maturity Stakes. That would be like getting Lana Turner's sister on a date you thought you had with Lana...
...Cleveland, the season's smallest crowd (22,981) braved another snowfall to watch the Buffalo Bills battle the Cleveland Browns for the All-America Football Conference championship. It wasn't much of a battle. Coach Paul Brown's Browns didn't let a little snow get in the way of their march to an undefeated season. The Buffalo Bills were understandably reluctant to get in the way of 238-lb. Negro Fullback Marion Motley, hardest running back in pro football since Bronco Nagurski. Motley didn't get warmed up until the second half. Then...
Since pro football has no world series, there was no decisive way of proving which league had the champingest champ. But most fans agreed that Brown's Browns, who have been champions ever since the All-America Conference was started, were the tops in pro football...