Word: continente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Polite Applause. As he read, many of the 50,000 gathered in front of the monument seemed hardly to be listening. Firecrackers popped from the edges of the Fourth of July crowd. Sudden bursts of laughter and applause, inspired by crowd antics that had nothing to do with the President...
"Unity . . . would mean early independence of aid from America and other Atlantic countries. The coffers, mines and factories of that continent are not inexhaustible . . . The establishment of a workable European federation would go far to create confidence that Europe was doing its full and vital share . . .
In ordinary times, the case would have rated a quiet police investigation, some chatter at cocktail parties, perhaps a feature article in the more lurid Sunday supplements. But when two middle-drawer British foreign-service men disappeared during a trip to the continent last month, the usually stolid British Foreign...
"[U.S.] diplomacy [is] an amateurish mixture of provocation, pressure, persuasion and money. The entire continent has been flooded with anti-Argentine pamphlets which can be traced to the U.S. Now a North American organization has been set up in Montevideo to intervene in this country's political affairs by...
Reporters covering Margaret Truman's vacation week in London had not had so strenuous an assignment since Mrs. Roosevelt first came to town. Among the sights Margaret saw before beginning her first tour of the continent in The Netherlands: Winston Churchill at lunch, the Archbishop of Canterbury at tea...