Word: balkans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more affecting if Ruth Gordon had not made Mrs. Lord just as odious as her Goneril-and-Regan duo of daughters. As every contemporary playgoer knows, the family is an heir-conditioning unit: bitches beget bitches. The denouement is embarrassing, as Mrs. Lord marries one of those beamish Balkan boys with a rich grandmother fixation...
...mile hole in the Bulgarian defenses. The Bulgarian retreat turned to a rout under strafing by R.A.F. machine gunners. Blue-turbaned Moroccan cavalry, under French officers, carried out what was perhaps the last great cavalry march of European warfare, advancing 57 miles in six days across craggy, wild Balkan mountains to seize the chief enemy bastion of Skoplje. In Paris, Winston Churchill later recalled, "it was recognized at once that the end had come." Six weeks after Bulgaria's surrender, German plenipotentiaries capitulated in the railroad car in the Compiègne Forest...
Monday, August 30 THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Agent Solo is instructed to silence a troublemaking Balkan ambassador by "arranging" the sale of America's newest secret weapon. Repeat...
...this was the basic gap between him and his disciple-adversaries: he was a European, a deep European, not just from the fringe of Britain, France, and Scandinavia. He grew up in the center of Europe between the wars, when old Balkan societies were in flux, governments were tyrannical or unstable, and economies sickly or chaotic. For Western Europe, terror was still an outrage, even in war-time an exception to the rule. In Eastern Europe, terror walked in everyday clothes; Dedijer's first wife joined the fighting against the Germans after she saw four Partisans hanging from street-lamps...
...successful industrialization and trade with the West, free of Moscow's interference. To that end, Rumania has tried hard to stay neutral in the Russian Chinese cold war. So covetously do Moscow and Peking view Rumania's new independence that the little (pop. 18.8 million) Balkan state has become the most ardently courted nation in the Communist bloc...