Word: continente
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The Congress of Vienna convened in 1814, four months after Napoleon's exile on the island of Elba. It continued for much of the following year, even while the French Emperor made his last futile effort, in the famous Hundred Days, to recapture the glory that had been his...
Those Americans who do still make it to Europe are largely the affluent. Indeed, the European travel industry finds some comfort in the fact that Americans are still the biggest spenders around; in France they shell out an average $63 a day, v. $26 for the Germans.* But almost everywhere...
Washington, Jefferson and their contemporaries believed that the U.S. should avoid "foreign entanglements." That conception lingered as the U.S., impregnable behind its ocean ramparts, moved across its own continent to ever-increasing prosperity. Under Wilson, this dominant policy was broken by World War I, but the concept regained force until...
"I have no need to cut a figure or gain a reputation as a fighter or a lover. I think killing animals is a desecration. In Hemingway's time Africa was a continent without political self-consciousness. Today men rise to power overnight and often fall just as quickly. There...
The missile installations at Berbera are only the tip of the Soviet iceberg on the hot horn of Africa. Over the past several years, the Russians have transformed Somalia's 17,000-man armed forces into some of the strongest on the continent. Of the 3,000 or so...