Word: eras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chief of staff, was prepared to ride out the storm. But it is likely that both he and Adams have underestimated the storm's force, for across the U.S. a hurricane of criticism swept from the public, the newspapers, cartoonists, jokesters and GOPoliticians. The Democrats, lashed for Truman-era corruption* in the 1952 campaign, were confident that no Republican would dare use the corruption issue again...
...from those who still wanted to believe in a U.S.S.R. change of heart, occurred among the neutralist powers and Europe's left-wing fringe. Avanti, organ of Pietro Nenni's red-tinged Italian Socialist Party, proclaimed that the executions "bring us back in full bloom" to the era of Stalinism. Burma's Premier U Nu called them "a horrible act." The Indonesian Socialist daily Pedoman drew a local moral: "We cannot fool around with the idea of cooperation with the Reds." In India, where Nehru's equivocation blunted the impact of the revolt itself, there...
...fastest mind with which I have ever come in contact," said President Woodrow Wilson. "Probably the most charming extravert in the Western world," marveled a rival editor. Ebullient, egocentric, suave and unflaggingly dynamic, Herbert Bayard Swope stood splendidly apart in an era of splendid individualists. As reporter, foreign correspondent and executive editor on the famed New York World-Joseph Pulitzer's proudest monument-Swope gave a glamorous flair to the incisive, personalized brand of U.S. journalism that flourished before World War I and stretched into...
...simultaneously weakening the race by ensuring the survival of the unfit? The question, largely academic in Nietzsche's day, is being raised anew by a man who has done as much as anyone to help human survival: Rene Jules Dubos, pioneer in microbiology, whose discoveries opened the era of antibiotics...
...future bond issues planned for the next few months, and concluded: "It means that the greatest wave of cash borrowing by our Treasury since the Korean war and the greatest wave of borrowing ever in peacetime is about to sweep our land ... It means that the easy money era which was kicked off this past November will keep running through this period. All borrowers-including you -will be benefited by this...