Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have my revenge one day." But Ali was beaten, and he knew it. Casually next evening, handsome Ghulam relaxed at a private showing of a movie called Love in Venice. (He is also an ardent Marilyn Monroe fan.) Thus, last week, a new regime was established in Asia...
...process of anglicizing Battenberg to Mountbatten. Though once dismissed as a mere playboy, he had had the satisfaction in World War II of seeing his superiors seethe as he was plucked from beneath them to be made first an acting admiral and later Supreme Allied Commander for Southeast Asia...
...mental reservations about the chief of the French government," L'Express lumped Brisson and Le Figaro with "those wretched persons who dug a ditch for France . . . who twice a year sold Americans on the great Indo-China illusions . . . who sold the prestige of France in Asia and the young graduates of Saint-Cyr for American subsidies." The new government's policies, firmly declared L'Express, had filled the ditch with solid ground...
...long hours of private talk with Nehru, Mao Tse-tung and Chou showed no interest in granting Nehru his area of peace. Instead, Chou wanted to enlist him in a "joint declaration" that would pledge "protection" to Asia against Western interference...
...esteem might be agreed to at the end of the visit, the fact was (according to word sifting back to New Delhi) that Nehru was shocked by Red China's cocky misunderstanding of the outside world, and afraid that Red China's distorted picture might lead Asia to disaster. And as for Red China's proposed Asian bloc, Nehru was "not very enthusiastic...