Word: cold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washington had shown little sense of urgency, even less appreciation of the fact that the struggle in the world is for men's hearts and minds. The Marshall Plan had originally aimed to capture their hearts through their stomachs. But the cold hammering away on the plan's economic aspects had left it with about as much political appeal to an Italian peasant as a page from the Statistical Abstract. U.S. propaganda agencies abroad, limited in funds, were ineffectual. The U.S. spoke-when it spoke-from the other side of the Atlantic. Russia hollered right down the chimney...
...could for U.S. democracy. He pointed to U.S. generosity with money and supplies. But Washington gave no public sign that it would back the De Gasperi government up to the hilt against any attempted Communist coup. And yet a victory for Communism in Italy would mean that the cold war, which the U.S. once thought it was winning, would get uncomfortably warm...
...first day, when Communist Minister of the Interior Vaclav Nosek "discovered" the National Socialist Party's conspiracy against the state, Prague shivered with cold and fright. Truckloads of armed police with brand-new automatic rifles rumbled through the streets. Opposition leaders were arrested and Parliament, scheduled to meet next day, postponed the session indefinitely. Archbishop Beran of Prague was refused permission to pray for peace on the Communist-controlled Prague radio. In the streetcars, which used to be favorite political forums, passengers were silent. President Eduard Benes' executive office announced that the President "asks all citizens to maintain...
...democratic son. He talked wittily and well of "bridges" between Communism and democracy. When the hour came last week, Jan Masaryk was the bridge: he lay down and the Communists walked over him. He stayed in his job as Foreign Minister after the coup. He had a cold, and refused to talk to newsmen on the telephone. ("His voice is very bad," said a secretary...
Born rich (in 1832), Manet decided early on his lifework and never had to compromise. Art school, he complained, was "like entering a tomb," but he spent six years buried there, learning to paint studio nudes in various shades of tobacco juice. When he had all the fashionable tricks cold, Manet started traveling, copied masterpieces in Belgium, Holland, Germany and Italy. After such a training, he submitted his personal experiments to the Salon-Paris' high court...