Word: anti-american
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Subtly, Diefenbaker cashed in on the anti-American sentiment that the pipeline debate stirred up: "If foreign investments are to remain predominant in resource industries, Canada would tend to become a purely extractive national economy." As the campaign progressed, his audiences became bigger and more demonstrative. Keeping a man-killing schedule of daylight speaking tours and nights of travel by train and airplane, he seemed to live on chicken sandwiches and cat naps grabbed in moving automobiles. He explained his knack for dropping off to sleep easily: "You just clench your back teeth." On his six-week, 20,000-mile...
...book, and a style as lean and resourceful as a hungry wildcat. Above all, West was not parochial, did not advocate political or social systems. He was one of those men in whom pity must take the form of anger, but his anger was not anything as simple as anti-American or anti-Babbitt; it was anti-human nature...
...Taipei the strict military curfew ended, but a substratum of anger and resentment lingered on both sides, after Formosa's anti-American rioting (TIME, June 3). Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek called it "one of the most shocking and regrettable things to have happened in my 50 years of public life...
...drinking and speeding. Apprehensive lest there be a repetition of last fortnight's riots in Taipei, Greek authorities called out police to surround the U.S. embassy and the cathedral where General Sarafis' body lay in state. Thanks to Ambassador Allen's quick action, there were no anti-American demonstrations...
...Japan, where anti-American sentiment has been fanned by the jurisdictional dispute over another G.I. who is charged with manslaughter, Hokkaido Shimbun said that the riots were "primarily attributable to American racial prejudice and superiority complex." The usually pro-American Mainichi Shimbun exulted: "The incident proves an old saying: 'Even a worm one inch long is one-half inch of spirit.'" In Bangkok the middle-of-the-road daily Satirapharp cautioned: "The incident on Formosa has taught us that we must not let too many Americans come to our country...