Word: easts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stranger to Western ways. A man who likes to wear a Homburg, Nehru has preferred Western dress since his British schooldays (Harrow as well as Cambridge). This preference is one of the contradictions which once made him write of himself: "I have become a queer mixture of the East and West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere...
...Western intellectual in Nehru grows impatient and often irritable over dependence. The East in him responds intuitively. Emotionally, he plays to the hilt the role of father to his people...
Most West Berliners today "trade with the enemy." They turn in their hard West marks at six to one for soft Soviet marks, then buy in East Berlin. A gaunt worker, castigating the Reds, growled about "die Schweine" (the pigs), but he had just got a haircut in the Soviet sector. "Berliners value freedom," a German paper editorialized, "but they can do little with it. They have only the hungry freedom of the unemployed...
Russian officials in the four-power city control board had lately consented to a joint battle against the potato bug. They agreed that East & West should honor each other's postage stamps-and then urged the West Berliners to buy stamps cheaper with soft Soviet marks ("Every agreement we make, we lose," lamented a U.S. official...
...familiar gold-and-black "A. Schulte" cigar-store signs on 186 busy streetcorners in the East and Midwest will be coming down soon. Up in their places will go flashy new signs reading: "D. A. Schulte, Inc., Fashion Haberdashery for Men & Women.'' Instead of cigar stores that dabbled in men's ties, shirts and socks, this week Schulte's was turning itself into clothing stores that dabbled in tobacco...