Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many bitter years since Yalta, it seems there are those who still do not fully realize that each successful Communist aggression breeds another. If the Chinese Communist regime seizes the smaller Nationalist isles, either by invasion or negotiated retreat, its next step will be Formosa, then all Southeast Asia, then India...
...India of bullock-drawn carts, and hovels and beggars, the teeming, tumultuous India of grinding poverty that has become the Bank's biggest customer. India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru warned the delegates on opening day: "The changes of the last few years have unleashed a giant. Asia does not want to continue as a starving continent living on the verge of subsistence." The giant, said Nehru, had been kept down for 150 years. "Tremendous urges are coming up. These needs are there and are justified. Who are we to criticize if people want better food, better clothing...
...fact, it may not be unrealistic to claim that the remainder of this century belongs to them and their fellow students in the underdeveloped nations of Asia and Africa. A description of Nigerian student life, therefore, offers a rough indication of what the U.S. may expect in a rapidly changing world...
...policy. We were often asked what the U.S. was doing to preserve world peace, why it had invaded Lebanon, why Hbomb tests had not been halted, and chided for our failure to launch a space satellite ahead of Russia. One very troubling question: "Why is America so opposed to Asia...
...Ugly American, by William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick. A slashing though all too simon-simple polemic, in the guise of fiction, about the men and women who have taken up the white man's burden for the U.S. in Southeast Asia...