Word: balkanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...equilibrium of Europe, the guarantee of peace along the Rhine, the independence of the Vistula, Danube and Balkan states, the creation of some form of association with the peoples all over the world to whom we have opened the doors of Western civilization, an organization of nations which will be some thing more than an arena for disputes between America and Russia-these surely are our great interests in tomorrow's world. (1944) Perhaps it might be possible to renew Franco-Russian solidarity in some fashion, which, even if repeatedly betrayed and repudiated, remains no less a part...
...more than whisking around the world to reaffirm his conviction that the U.S. is misspending its money on foreign aid. Since 1946, he has made six globe-girdling tours, two side trips to Latin America, three to Europe, and four to the Near Middle and Far East and the Balkan countries. In his travels, Ellender shoots 16-mm. movies, shows them to his colleagues in Washington. He keeps little black notebooks in which he scribbles gossipy comments about everything he sees. These are published at Government expense, in books running as long as 1,000 pages, and shipped...
...print. One explanation is Bond's universal expertise. His man-of-the-worldsmanship is so explicit that his fans' fantasies have a rich and varied diet to feed on. His cigarettes, with their three distinctive gold rings (a considerable security risk), are blended for him of a Balkan tobacco mixture by Morlands of Grosvenor Street. For breakfast: "The single egg in the dark blue egg cup with a gold ring round the top was boiled for three and a third minutes . . . Then there were two slices of wholewheat toast, a large pat of deep yellow Jersey butter...
...five is now grown up) in a cottage on the coast of Wales near the village his longtime friend Dylan Thomas immortalized in Under Milkwood. When not writing, he has kept busy enough, bustling around the world. He was a friend of Moroccan Chieftain El Glaui, has hobnobbed with Balkan rebels, shipped on freighters, and he has been described as a "sea pirate come to land." In 1924, he wrote what is called Britain's first radio drama. Danger, for which he still gets royalties; he served a wartime stint with the British Admiralty, and then wrote a history...
Peeling Gumshoes. Elsewhere in Communist Europe, the once familiar busts and images have disappeared, but recent visitors to Albania, notably a group of German journalists, still find the old Stalin pictures-and the old Stalin touch-in a ramshackle Balkan setting. In the capital city of Tirana, wide Skanderbeg Square boasts three white-uniformed traffic cops on duty-but no traffic for them to direct. Heavily-armed police and soldiers stand guard before ministries and embassies, on street corners, in parks, in front of and behind hotels. Other guards, toting machine guns, pace before the residences of top Red officials...