Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dead Man in the Silver Market, by Aubrey Menen. In an amusing, somewhat mannered autobiographical aside, the noted Irish-Indian satirist laughs at Eastern and Western chauvinism, the world and himself (TIME...
...Refugees. One West German in five is a refugee. To politicians in a campaign year, the refugee vote is an irresistible temptation to demagoguery. There are more than 10 million refugees, expelled from Communist Eastern Europe in three great waves. The advancing Red army chased 650,000 from East Prussia and Mecklenburg; most of them settled in the state of Schleswig-Holstein, which has become known as the "poorhouse of Germany." Next came the 8,000,000 Volksdeutsche (German ethnic groups) expelled from Eastern Europe. The last wave started when two million hungry East Germans began fleeing across the border...
...said, with "satisfaction and gratitude." Malenkov was clearly hoping to put his East German puppets back in business after their pummeling last June. He also used the occasion to accuse Konrad Adenauer of "leading Germany toward a new war," and "again setting Germany against the peoples of Western and Eastern Europe." This was calculated to make some propaganda hay among Germany's fearful neighbors, the Poles, the Czechs and the French. But would it have much effect on the German elections? Probably not, for if there is one thing all West Germans are united on, it is a contempt...
Aubrey Menen. The noted Irish-Indian satirist laughs at Eastern and Western chauvinism, the world and himself (TIME...
Kinsey moved on to Harvard and took up wild food. He became as expert in this as in everything else that he has chosen to study. By 1920, with the late Merritt Lyndon Fernald, he finished his first book: Edible Wild Plants of Eastern North America (not published until 1943). For the distinguished members of the New England Botanical Club, Kinsey and Fernald spent days preparing a wild dinner: cold pigweed salad, pickles from cucumber root, bread from the acorns of swamp white oaks, squawberries, a cake of ground hickory nuts filled with blueberries and topped with maple syrup...