Word: approach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which Garrick "showed for the first time the whole process though which a person actually goes insane." And from the 19th century he mentioned Edmund Kean's conception of Shylock as an Italian Jew only 38 years old, and said he wished somebody else would dare to try this approach sometime...
...Path to Power. Nikita Khrushchev, in appearance a man of headlong exuberance, had waited 51 months to make his coup. When it came, it was as unexpected and as ruthless as anything Stalin had done. But there was a world of difference in Khrushchev's approach to power. Whereas Stalin, utterly contemptuous of party or world opinion, had purged the army and party structure wide and deep, Khrushchev had gone to great lengths to establish support among the party rank and file, particularly in the provinces, and to make himself a popular figure with peasants and workers...
...House. Three years later she went back to take her bachelor's degree, followed by graduate study at Yale, marriage to a Yale historian, and finally a job at Bryn Mawr. She had an alarming habit of mislaying spectacles, important documents and salary checks, and a curiously housewifely approach to research ("I always put different topics on different colored pages. If I haven't a pink paper, I take a white paper and write 'PINK' on the top"). As a teacher she inspired a generation of girls with a love of history, as a scholar added...
AUSTRIAN DOLLAR bonds, which have paid no interest since 1939, will be either exchanged for new interest-paying bonds or redeemed, and U.S. investors' claims may approach $200 million. Joint U.S.-Austrian validation board will be set up in Manhattan to establish which bonds are eligible...
...depict the mentality, talk and folkways of Americans, but except for an occasional phrase like "in the bag," the Americans sound totally Teutonic. But readers will find grim, retroactive amusement in Author Kirst's account of the hasty changes made in a German town as U.S. tanks approach: an old Nazi triumphantly reveals that his housekeeper is half Jewish; panicky Gauleiter and Kreis-leiter are sheltered in hospitals; a satisfactory "antifascist" working man is thrust into jail ("Wouldn't you like another blanket, Herr Freitag? Two more perhaps?") in the hope that the American conquerors will rescue...