Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...terms of British membership might have cut off Australia's biggest export market. Since then, Japan has become a major outlet for Australian wool, and Red China a major purchaser of Australian wheat. Australia was a leader in founding the Asia Development Bank (which will elect its first president and board of directors this week in Tokyo), and has broadly liberalized its immigration laws to permit easier Asian entry into a society that was once nearly 100% British. At present, more than 14,000 Asian students are studying at Australian universities...
...hard-hitting campaign that has taken him all the way from the Snowy Mountains to the pubs of Woolloomooloo, Holt has emphasized Australia's new role in Asia. "At times," he says with deep certainty, "we have been told that we are going American, just as once we were told we were clinging to the skirts of Downing Street. In fact, we're going Australian. We are realizing the importance of being Australian-to play a not-insignificant part in what is happening in this area. It is a welcome opportunity for Australia to establish her own identity...
...Europe, self-murder was stigmatized by the full force of church and state-a suicide's property was confiscated, his body was dragged through the streets and buried at a crossroads, with a stake driven through the heart (presumably to keep him from haunting the living). In Asia, by contrast, suicide as a form of renunciation has widely been considered admirable...
Before the OSS sent her to Asia, Julia was in Washington, D.C., where she struggled valiantly with a hot plate, only succeeded in "splashing chicken fat all over the walls." Back home after the war, she enrolled in a Los Angeles cooking school to prepare for her marriage-with disastrous results: her bearnaise sauce congealed because she used lard instead of butter; her calves' brains in red wine fell apart; her well-larded wild duck set the oven on fire-she had completely forgotten to put it in a pan. Says Husband Paul gallantly: "I was willing...
...brother Lawrence (The Alexandria Quartet) is by queer people. In previous books, he has sought them out in such odd corners as backwoods Uruguay and Sierra Leone. This time he journeys to the "attic of the world"-Australia-where, owing to the early destruction of the land bridge to Asia, the island continent became an asylum for the primitive marsupials and monotremes. There, an odd sort of evolution took place: instead of the great herds of hoofed animals that developed on other continents, Australia produced kangaroos and wallabies; in place of squirrels there are platypuses and phalangers. The wombat...