Word: east
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only at the price of a middle class invasion from which they never really recovered. At war's end, demobilization in Europe brought a huge influx of refugees--not merely the weary Britons looking for a second chance, but also a dynamic hoard of bright-eyed central and east Europeans. The newcomers, adaptable and eager to make good, often had technical skills and or artistic talents...
...Moliere and the Sorbonne, Paris, and Sommerville College, Oxford. She received her degree in "PP and E" (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics). Her book titles reflect her interest; among her published works are The West at Bay (1948), Policy for the West (1951), Faith and Freedom (1954), and Interplay of East and West...
...this attitude. When Khrushchev suggested that Berlin be made a free city, the Western powers should have answered with "screams of delight." They should have said, "At last you Russians realize the value of international control, such as the West has been advocating all along. Of course, you want East Berlin included in the change." Such an approach would show a more aggressive and effective policy, not a mere "contentment with the very miserable status...
...Arab nation was a welcome change. Yet those who now instinctively saw in Nasser a welcome new ally overlooked his own heavy and continuing dependence on the Soviet bloc. London's conservative Daily Telegraph noted the irony that it was Nasser who first invited into the Middle East the Communist forces that now opposed him so effectively. But more than irony was involved. Nasser still did not rebuke Moscow, only those Arabs loyal to it. Communist countries now take 59% of Egypt's exports. They support the U.A.R.'s economy with an estimated $600 million line...
...best, this training in submission and subtlety produced the kind of woman who has moved men of the West as well as of the East to rhapsody. Carried away, a writer in the Encyclopaedia Britannica described her: "She is entirely unselfish; exquisitely modest without being anything of a prude; abounding in intelligence which is never obscured by egotism; patient in the hour of suffering; strong in time of affliction; a faithful wife; a loving mother; a good daughter; and capable, as history shows, of heroism rivaling that of the stronger...