Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those families where polygamy is still practiced-particularly among the rich-the women often take a sophisticated view. In Manhattan, a slim, exquisitely gowned wife of an Eastern diplomat argued that taking a second wife was no different from the Western practice of taking a mistress. "The problem of the man who wants more than one woman is as old as humanity. We don't think the Western nations have found a really better solution...
...eastern highlands of New Guinea, sudden bursts of maniacal laughter shrilled through the walls of many a circular, windowless grass hut, echoing through the surrounding jungle. Sometimes, instead of the roaring laughter, there might be a fit of giggling. When a tribesman looked into such a hut, he saw no cause for merriment. The laugher was lying ill, exhausted by his guffaws, his face now an expressionless mask. He had no idea that he had laughed, let alone why. New Guinea's Fore (pronounced foray) tribe was afflicted by a deadly foe. It was kuru, the laughing death...
...last week from Pullman-Standard. Surveying the trend, N. C. Dezendorf, boss of General Motors' electromotive division, admitted: "Several years ago, when lightweight trains were first discussed, there was tremendous enthusiasm among railroads for them. I was turning down orders. There's none of that now. The Eastern roads, which were the most enthusiastic, now seem to want to get completely out of the passenger business...
...probably significant that this book was published by The Westerners, a group recently organized into corrals in Eastern and semi-Western cities. This is an exceedingly romantic type of organization, but it is the only one which has made much concerted effort to study the West as an entity. However, the West has not yet enough perspective on its past to be able to understand the present. The West is more than the "Howdy Country" that S. Omar Barker calls it, just as it deserves a better epitaph than the opening of this book, "They know the West lives...
Instead of borrowing from the United States and West Germany, as France will undoubtedly have to do to fight inflation, she might well loan herself out--on a short term perhaps--to neighboring countries. West Germany will get French coal eventually--why not annex eastern France to Germany directly? Besides, coal is dirty, and nobody else seems to want it. England, on the other hand, has wanted western France for centuries; there is little reason why she shouldn't have a crack at it now. With a little American financing the British might not do too badly in administering...