Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...impassioned schoolmaster named Patrick Pearse marched out of the door of Dublin's General Post Office, hauled a flag of green, white and orange to the peak of the flagpole and in a ringing voice hurled a challenge at his British overlords: "Supported by her exiled children in America and by gallant allies in Europe ... Ireland strikes in full confidence of victory . . . We hereby proclaim the Irish Republic as a Sovereign Independent State...
...Secretary was polite and cautious, but in his own conservative way he did not disappoint them. He had high praise for previous cooperation between the U.S. and Latin America in joint cultural, educational and health projects. When he came to the future, he dotted no i's, crossed no t's, but he did make a firm commitment. Said Acheson: "Almost every kind of project contemplated in the worldwide program [of help to undeveloped areas] has been developed and tested in cooperative [InterAmerican] programs . . . Present plans include a substantial expansion of these joint activities in this hemisphere...
...love America and Americans, and anyone who does not like them or appreciate their character is henceforth my enemy," announced British Poet-Novelist Sir Osbert Sitwell, back in England after a lecture visit to the U.S. He had found the American people warmhearted, aware of their responsibilities and impatient of injustice, he said. Another virtue: "The Americans have something which is missing in England today-beautiful manners." Sir Osbert even had a gaudy tribute for New York, "the most beautiful and inspiring of modern creations, the sole heir to Alexandria, Constantinople and Venice." In Pittsburgh, whose smoke she spoofs...
...paper fortnightly magazine of "facts and ideas." Heralded by newspaper ads, another 50,000 copies went on sale (at 25?) on newsstands across the U.S. With no other preliminary promotion, The Reporter hoped eventually to pick up 50,000 readers who would be attracted by its basic editorial proposition: "America as a nation [is] inseparably tied to the freedom and well-being of other nations...
...field includes the main civilizations in world history, subdivided either by country or century. A History and Lit major can concentrate on America, England, France, Germany, Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece, the Renaissance, the Middle Ages, and the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries...