Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Development Commission, Government of Ghana, "are interested in almost the same things," especially the developments of "young countries." Lady Jackson's work, which springs from "inner conviction," is more theoretical than her husband's; he is more interested in administrative problems, having had extensive experience in different countries throughout Asia and Africa...
...pointed out that studies of Armenian history are particularly important for a full understanding of social and economic developments in Asia. Courses in medieval history, church history, and linguistics will be offered in correlation with Armenian, he noted...
...Shodas could aim high for their daughter, since by 1955 the family Nisshin Flour Milling Co. was the largest in Asia, with current sales totaling $93 million a year. Michiko joked with an uncle: "If Crown Prince Akihito were only a little taller, I might fall in love with him." Michiko (5 ft. 3½ in.) had several times seen the crown prince (5 ft. 5 in.), who also vacationed at Karuizawa...
...ones he imagines to have found here. But Harvard, while it spurns the richness of a full American tradition, does not provide a satisfactory Continental substitute. To the undergraduate, Europe is a spectrum ranging from Germany's "Hegelian mysticism" to England's ubiquitous middle class muddling through Asia and Africa are still thought of as lower civilizations, admired only for primitive art and Japanese prints. This is the average extent of undergraduate cosmopolitanism. Meanwhile, the non-Eastern student has been taught the inadequacies of his own provincialism; and even if he does not repudiate his background...
...Wisp-bearded Ho kissed all the pretty girls in sight, thus scandalizing pious Moslems, who complained that his bussing of young women was "an overt violation of Moslem law." Sukarno, who always likes to say what visitors like to hear, called Ho "one of the greatest men in Asia." General Abdul Haris Nasution and his army kept order and their own counsel...