Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MORE THAN HALF OF ALL FATAL INFECTIONS ARE ACQUIRED INSIDE A HOSPITAL. The extent of this danger and the complex, rigorous measures needed to minimize it preoccupied the American College of Surgeons' clinical congress last week in Atlantic City. See MEDICINE...
...that the Olympic crew that he led would go forth, "the bronze-skinned ones, to conquer the oarsmen of the world, as warlike Menelaus led the bronze-greaved Argives against Troy of old." The late Arthur Brisbane, his fancy tickled by the responsibilities of "this stalwart scion of honorable American lines," imagined him stirring his men to victory with "winged words plucked bright and burning" from the Homeric Greek: ri(j>d' OUTCOS ecrTTjre TeflrjTrores ^Ore ve(3pol ("Why stand ye here astounded, like fauns?"). Thus encouraged. Rockefeller's crew swept the Seine. For the latest news...
...year later in Bogota, Colombia, Castro was involved in a student congress which had a core of well-organized Communists. The congress issued a protest against American policies. There can be no doubt that Castro then had anti-American, if not Communist sentiments...
After graduation from Havana University, Castro spent much of his time defending poverty stricken peasants caught in the snares of the intricate Cuban laws. Cuban law is derived from the Spanish, rather than Anglo-Saxon, tradition, which accounts for some of the misunderstanding incurred between Americans and Cubans, especially over the question of trials. The Latin American conception of justice includes not only objective considerations of evidence, but human factors, personality and prevailing emotion...
Speaking on the topic, "A Larger Patriotism," Saltonstall emphasized that patriotism should include not only love of one's own country but love of all humanity as well. The average American citizen has an immature attitude towards foreign affairs, he said, which allows him to see the world situation only from the point of view of his own country and prevents international understanding...