Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Khrushchev also praised John Foster Dulles as "a great political figure," but of course his compliment had a Communist twist to it. Khrushchev's bare-faced whopper: in his last days, chatting with Mikoyan, Dulles had reversed his policy and accepted Russian domination of Eastern Europe. Dulles was not alive to answer so gross a fairy story,* and Khrushchev added kindly, "To make such a declaration required courage." The State Department noted tartly that Khrushchev's menacing insults to Italy and Greece hardly fitted in with his pre-summit stance of trying to ease tensions...
Among Communists who played court to the big boss was Red China's touring Defense Minister, who turned up in Tirana. Belgrade further reported that "most" Eastern European satellites had asked and received permission to send planes across Yugoslavia with unspecified passengers for Albania. It could hardly be said that the party big wheels had picked a Communist show place to gather in. But then the Khrushchev party's next stop is Hungary...
...boldest of all its colonial experiments, Britain has conferred autonomy on the famed imperial base of Singapore. The island is as strategically important as ever for Britain's Southeast Asia trade. It is essential to defense of Britain's still far-flung Eastern outposts. Nonetheless, the British government is turning over full powers of internal self-government to the island's inhabitants, four-fifths of whom are Chinese and therefore bound by ties of blood and language, at least, to the giant Communist Chinese republic to the north. In the old days only British subjects-which automatically...
...Baileys lost all their money in 1939 producing a show that used Hollywood cheesecake to whet the Eastern appetite, quickly suffered an Occidental death. Interned by the Japanese during World War II, Bill, then in his mid-50s, put the years of imprisonment to good use: he learned to read and write, something he had never found time to accomplish before...
There are also doubts about transparent packages, one of the star attractions of the supermarket. In a four-week test in Eastern supermarkets, grocers were surprised to find that shoppers bought more women's and children's socks, pants and other soft goods packaged in the old-fashioned cardboard containers. There also was less stealing...