Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Lucius Clay . . . He embodies what I like to believe America is in Europe, firm, patient, quite capable and basically tough...
...European Recovery." The Queen's Commissioner arrived, Burgomaster Witschey said grace in Dutch, and dinner proceeded: three stout courses followed by brandy and a speech by the burgomaster. "Thanks to America," he said, "we are able to work." Next day I was shown what that meant...
...Part Good Fellowship. There was one point I wanted to clear up. "Why," I asked spinners in the plant canteen, "do you think America is doing this?" Answered Jan Missink, a wiry, blond fellow, seven members of whose family work for the company: "Americans really want to help us; they know that under the Russians we would be lost, as we were under the Germans." Said Berend Groote: "Yes, it is part self-interest and part sportief [good fellowship...
...President Romulo Gallegos, who flew off to exile in Cuba, blamed last fortnight's coup on 1) "powerful forces of Venezuelan capital lacking in social awareness"; 2) foreign oil interests; 3) the "scant attention the U.S. is paying toward Latin America"; 4) an unnamed foreign government. Said he: "There has occurred in Venezuela one more action like those which our democracy [throughout the Americas] has been suffering. Who is the director of this machine of oppression set on the march in our continent? What is the meaning of the notorious presence of a military attaché of a foreign...
Emily Post, 75, chided a reporter for a breach of etiquette in asking when she was born (a date she has not given to Who's Who in America). "Where is this going to be printed?" she added. "It's for our files," replied the reporter. "Oh, an obituary. Well," ruled Mrs. Post, "if they're not going to print it until I'm dead, I don't care...