Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...traveled to the Far East, Europe, Africa, behind the Iron Curtain "and even Iran" with American all-star teams, said the U.S. didn't even know how to capitalize on the presence of American athletes in foreign countries...
...Nobody else had ever been invited to the Russian army country club. But we got in there, took the place over. And then later the American ambassador snubbed us, wouldn't even get out of his chair to say hello. So what...
Billy Graham: A Parable of American Righteousness. By Marshall Frady. (Little, Brown, $12.95): Frady knows a winner when he sees one. Just take a look at the subject for his latest book, Wallace. His choice of good guys might not be yours, but the book is well crafted at any rate. Frady supports the27CrimsonAnthea Letsou...
...example, I. Bernard Cohen, Thomas Professor of the History of Science, wants Santa to bring all the American hostages in Iran home for Christmas. That's a big present, as President Carter well knows...
That's not the case with Donald H. Fleming, Trumbull Professor of American History. The intellectual historian's gifts are less thrilling: "I guess I just get nickties," he admitted...