Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...although most honors candidates take seven or eight History courses plus related courses. Honors candidates are required to take Departmental Tests at the end of their Junior year which include three questions from the four major chronological and geographical areas (Ancient and Medieval Europe, Modern Europe, The Americas and Asia) and a two hour essay. A special field exam follows at the end of the senior year...
...smiling Lilliputians of Southeast Asia find the courage and unity to resist the Big-Endian blandishments of their Blefuscudian cousins in Red China and Viet Nam, to say nothing of the far greater danger menacing them from the Muscovite Brobdingnag giant to the north; and may the good Quinbus Flestrin of the West, the democratic big brother Gulliver, realize before it is too late that their small-scale problems are to an alarming degree his problems...
...observer could tell, boundlessly sure of himself. Critics could say that, even in a time of prosperity, the President should worry more about rising unemployment and deepening deficits; in a time when Russia had bulged nearly halfway across Europe and across the full breadth of Asia, he should spend his days & nights acquiring arms and achieving aims. Of course, they were right. But there was a lot to be said for a man who could walk away from a collision with the moon, the stars and all the planets, lead his nation through five troublesome years and come...
...Asia's Face. If we hope to save much of Southeast Asia from Russia, as we have . . . saved Greece and Turkey, we have no time to lose . . . The cost for economic aid and for weapons, for both South and East Asia, has been estimated at three or four hundred million dollars a year . . . Much more than that amount . . . could be saved without serious risk and possibly with affirmative benefit through trimming our proposed ECA Marshall Plan appropriations for Western Europe for the coming year...
...Tashkent, near Afghanistan in West Asia, collective farmers bought 7,000 sewing machines...