Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some 3,500 words, the President merely restated the line he laid down just a year ago when he sent General George Catlett Marshall to China as his special representative. The line: to end the civil war and bring the Chiang government and the Communists together within a democratic framework...
Fiqhter Turned Quaker. But Ned Coxere had no patriotic scruples against fighting for whichever flag he chanced to be sailing under. He fought now for King, now for Parliament, in the English Civil War. When he was a prisoner aboard a Spanish man o' war, one of his captors "looks down the scuttle where we were and called in Spanish to us 'There is good news: Cromwell is dead. There is a great feast in hell.' This . . . was good news to the Spaniards, for he made them cheap." On another voyage, from the Barbary Coast, his ship...
...become an architect. At the Bandung Technical Institute he got a degree in civil engineering, which entitles him to put Ir. in front of his name (Ir. is a contraction of ingenieur, Dutch for engineer). Soekarno's architectural career was as short as his professional title. He designed a few Chinese homes and was commissioned to do a Moslem mosque (most Java mosques are hideous tin-roofed stucco monstrosities, in contrast to the lovely ruins of the vanquished Hindu temples...
...they plead that funds should flow through civil, not military channels. Apparently Bush stands with them...
...Press reports as especially popular in the nation's bookstores for Christmas "Touched With Fire," the Civil War diary of Oliver Wendell Holmes; "Hintorical Anthology of Music," and the comprehensive two-volume edition of "Drawings in the Fogg Museum...