Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Greeks told themselves (as Europeans do today) that these new barbarians across the water might have more money-but they would never be really civilized. European intellectuals have always claimed that those American nouveaux riches are uncouth. They have now made the damning discovery that Americans are also unhappy. America in their eyes is the playgirl of the Western world-and not even a pretty one-with plumbing instead of arteries, ice water instead of blood, neuroses instead of a heart and a radio instead of a brain...
...blue dungarees, driving a donkey cart heaped with coal. "My life is now bitter," he said. "For ten shifts I get a bag of flour. For 20 shifts I get a ration of coal." Would he flee if the Reds came? The miner snorted. "Flee? Flee where? To America?" A crowd of workmen chorused their agreement. "Nothing could be much worse than our life now," said one. "We will stay...
Northward Ho. By this season's end, there were few upper or middle-class Cubans who had not visited Florida or were not planning a visit. Other travelers from Latin America had joined the northward trek, especially from Venezuela, Colombia and Brazil, but three out of four of Miami's southern tourists were Cubans...
...Cuban visitors were short-term tourists. Miami has a permanent Cuban colony of 5,000. Havana interests have also invested heavily in real estate and hotels. Cuban syndicates have bought into the big Everglades and Shoremede Hotels; the Royalton and America (also Cuban-owned) print their menus in Spanish. Reported Havana Newsman Miguel de Marcos: "Cuba has conquered Miami without firing a shot...
...maybe go back to schoolteaching, but she intended "to serve the Russian people by telling Americans of the hardships the Russians suffer under Soviet dictatorship." And "I would be proud if I could become an American citizen." As for returning to Russia: "Never, never ... I want to be in America and no place else ... I have no fears of the future...