Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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FULLY RECOGNIZING YOUR KEEN INTEREST IN AROUSING AMERICA TO REAL MENACE OF COMMUNISM, MAY I CALL UPON YOU TO HELP GREEK NATION PRESENTLY ENGAGED IN DEATH STRUGGLE WITH FORCES OF COMMUNISM, OUTCOME OF WHICH IS OF CRUCIAL IMPORTANCE TO WESTERN DEMOCRACIES, AND VERY PRINCIPLES FOR WHICH WE IN AMERICA FIGHT...
...Guardia field, bearing the departing Russians, a dozen suitcases, several cartons of cigarettes and 155 Ibs. of excess baggage. Under his arm, Shostakovich carried a large bundle of phonograph records. He was, he said, "glad to be returning home." Novelist Piotr Pavlenko told a Polish-speaking cop: "America is a wonderful country, a strong country. And it has one of the finest police forces in the world." Czech Journalist Jiri Hronek, however, said that "I wouldn't live in this country even if I were invited." Soviet Film Director Sergei A. Gerasimov, asked how he liked the U.S., replied...
Although, to the Western scientist, the technical side of production may seem easy, it is enormously difficult to the larger part of the world. Throughout Asia, Africa and large parts of Latin America, production and living standards are dangerously lower than in the U.S. and Western Europe. As India's Sir Ramaswami Mudaliar put it during M.I.T.'s panel on "The Problem of Underdeveloped Areas": "Here are great areas that can fall victim to communism, for what better material for communism is there than people who cannot even sustain themselves...
This added up to quite an order for America. No one claimed that all the tasks could be earned out. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about the convocation was that it heard no boosters of the 20th Century's high towers and great deeds. Yet a quiet optimism persisted. British Scientist Sir Henry Tizard, quoting the remark a school friend once made to Samuel Johnson, summed up the spirit of the conference: "I too have tried to be a philosopher; but I don't know how, cheerfulness kept breaking...
...challenge; it opened its own London office and this week appointed its own surveyors in ten British and Irish ports. The London Daily Express, watchdog of the empire, let out an angry woof: "Ai at Lloyd's [Register] is under fire from the U.S. The men who run America's ships want to ... replace it with an O.K. of their...