Word: coloniale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First to move in was the Massachusetts Legislature. In 1769, when British troops landed in Boston, terrified colonial statesmen petitioned the College for a meeting place across the Charles. Since Holden was empty, it was selected. In the years that followed, students packed the galleries to learn James Otis' lesson...
Sprawled in the governor's chair, wearing a crumpled white linen suit and the blue-and-scarlet tie of the Grenadier Guards, British Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton listened patiently to the representatives of 6,000,000 Africans, 100,000 Indians, 40,000 whites and 25,000 Arabs The whites...
Stevenson called again for understanding of a foreign people, suggesting that our alliance with the colonial powers of the West have made the East suspect our professed devotion to freedom as hypocritical. He called on America to "avoid the sins of self-righteousness and self-delusion in Asia. Our power...
Today, watered down by modern regulations, a plethora of shiny fire extinguishers and some automatic sprinkling equipment, the Hall bears only faint echoes of a vigorous Colonial past; a past when,
Through 1947 and 1948 the Indo-China war indeed seemed to be little more than another colonial war. In February 1947, the French drove the Communists away from Hanoi. In May, they demanded that Ho lay down his arms. In October, the French moved out from Hanoi towards the 500...