Word: americae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dulles is gone, and all America will miss him. But most of all, he'll be missed by those of us who I know are many-ex-Marines-who saw in him a man with spine, guts and self-respect. This was an American. This...
...arrive to find unemployment, housing shortages. jammed schools. Each disillusionment chafes doubly as a Communist propaganda drumfire pounds on it. And the new prosperity of Europe, the new and well publicized political freedom in Africa, added to existing prosperity and freedom in the U.S.. serve to make Latin America seem relatively stalled...
...fight them. West Pointer Tachito has a 4,000-man army, with Garands. Thompson submachine guns, .30-cal. machine guns, a few mortars. For Central America his air force is impressive: 20-odd P-51s. Tracking his troops on an Esso map last week, Tachito disdainfully dismissed the revolt as a "flop.'' For his part, Luis put Nicaragua under a state of siege and pressured the Organization of American States into a reluctant, long-distance study of the uprising...
...respectability it used to have. In his twelve years at Hillel, Rabbi Zigmond has noticed a trend in the University toward greater acceptance of religion, and greater recognition of the importance of religion in the lives of students. He sees this as part of a trend in America toward greater affiliation with churches and synagogues...
Just as three-fifths read Time and call themselves "moderate liberals," about two-thirds believe that America's two-party system is "satisfactory on the whole and should be essentially retained." In contrast, only one-fifth (extremists of both Right and Left) favor an alteration of the present party structure "so that sharper lines could be drawn" between the two parties--the G.O.P. presumably returning to its conservatism of a by-gone era, and the Democrats moving even further to the Left and becoming, in name as well as in fact, the party of the Respectable Radicals...