Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WASHINGTON, December 18--President Truman called upon China today to quell its civil strife, served notice the United States stands firm in its recognition of Chiang Kai-Shek's National Government, and pledged American aid in speeding Chinese economic recovery once peace returns...
...fact, they married sisters. Last month in Rangoon, Communist Than Tun told a TIME correspondent: "Aung San and I are not on speaking terms any more. And neither are our wives." That understatement was Than Tun's way of saying that, on the eve of self-government, a civil war (with leftover Japanese arms) might break out in Burma...
...show, the Whist Club imported Al Sobel of New York, the American Contract Bridge League's national tournament director. At headquarters in the Royal York Hotel, Director Sobel accepted 305 entrants. But he balked on the 306th. No. 306 was Leon Beard, 43, a Trinidad civil servant studying surveying at the University of Toronto. Reason for rejection: Leon Beard is a Negro...
Inevitably, the sound of World War II echoed loud through the year's biography and history, though marketwise publishers insisted that readers were sick & tired of the war. In nonfiction, the Civil War was still the favorite battleground of the antiquarians-and the prospective horrors of World War III was the stock in trade of most special pleaders, who now blatantly showed the name of the only potential enemy in sight, a practice not considered good manners at the start of the year. Only a few of 1946's substantial histories were wholly above the battle, among them...
After Lincoln, F.D.R. The U.S. Civil War, in contrast, seemed remote, almost mythical, virtually genteel. But Clifford Dowdey's Experiment in Rebellion, 'Roy Meredith's Mr. Lincoln's Camera Man, Burton J. Hendrick's Lincoln's War Cabinet and a corporal's guard of books dealing with Lincoln himself testified to the apparently fathomless curiosity of the U.S. reader in the events...