Word: eras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...career belies the charge. Once, in conversation with Novelist Andre Malraux, his wartime propaganda chief, De Gaulle declared: "One usually ascribes to me one quality: intelligence. Then how can one suppose that I am so unintelligent as to want to make a coup d'etat? . . . The era of the coup d'etat is past. It is an anachronism which does not at all correspond to my temperament." During the war, stubborn as he was with allies, he freely allowed himself to be overruled by Free France's Liberation Committee. And in the immediate postwar years, when France...
While Detroit is hard put to sell the 1958 cars, the simple, stately autos from another era are moving fast. Last week the Stutzes, Simplexes and Duesenbergs of yesteryear commanded a hotter demand and a higher price than any time since they went out of production. In the nation's major trading post for antique (prior to the mid-1920s) and classic (usually prior to 1942) cars, the automobile pages of the Sunday New York Times, a 1920 seven-passenger Fierce-Arrow was advertised for $2,500 v. $7,250 when new. Many oldsters were worth more than ever...
...Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in upstate New York a century and a third ago, but most of this writing has been marred by an all too obvious lack of detachment. The past several years, however, seem to have opened up a new and welcome era of objectivity...
President Sukarno apparently agreed. Until last week he believed he had the twelve-week-old rebellion under control, was boasting to crowds that "the fall of capitalism is a historical necessity. A new era of socialism will be born . . . Those who don't realize this will ultimately be destroyed...
...week after the ketch had arrived in Honolulu, the University of Hawaii newspaper ran an extra, headlined GOLDEN RULE--ISSUE OF AN ERA. It may well be such an issue, and four men in the Pacific have made up their minds as to how they feel about it. The voyage can be opposed or supported; it should not be ignored