Word: anti-american
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...contained and unruffled. Newspaper comment was relatively mild. The only protest gathering of any size was a polite half-hour demonstration at the American embassy by 30 college students. Many people, especially workers and farmers, either have not heard the news or show scant interest in it. While those who have heard it strongly oppose the Nixon move, and appear worried about future American intentions, there is little evidence yet of fever-pitch anger or anti-American feeling...
...more and more infatuated with Mussolini. In 1939, alarmed by Franklin Roosevelt's opposition to the Axis powers, he went to Washington to "talk some sense into the President." Roosevelt refused to see him. When the U.S. entered the war, Pound delivered a series of rambling and vaguely anti-American diatribes on Radio Roma. According to Mary, he did not really intend to betray his country but to persuade it with right reason. He saw himself as a Confucian scholar-statesman, and plastered the town of Rapallo with moralistic slogans: HONESTY IS THE TREASURE OF STATES. His daughter sees...
...easily arrange peace with Israel than can Moscow. Nor does he want to antagonize the Soviets at a critical moment with an unseemly show of independence. Thus, Egypt's President went out of his way to be cordial last week, even to the point of making some sharp anti-American remarks. "The U.S., with its military and material support of Israel," he said, "has actually thwarted peace endeavors, enabling aggression to gain ground...
...language of America." He added: "Europe will only be Europe if she distinguishes herself-I don't say cuts off, I say distinguishes herself-from America." In many ways, Heath agrees. Unlike many of his predecessors, he feels no particular bond with the U.S. "Heath is not anti-American, he's un-American," British Author Anthony Sampson (The New Europeans) said recently. "He has no pull toward America, either through family, the war or friendships. He feels no reciprocity from America...
Even two weeks ago, the prospect would have seemed incredible. After years of xenophobia and anti-American fulminations, after an era in which China seemed as tightly closed to Americans as the Forbidden City ever was to outsiders-here was the Chinese Premier being amiable to Americans. Here, after years of hearing that Americans were foreign devils, were masses of schoolchildren smiling and waving to the U.S. visitors...