Word: eras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Joseph Stalin died the world knew that an era had ended. And because it was the end of a long winter, though not necessarily the coming of spring, the change which ensued in the relations between nations was sometimes called the thaw. For a while the only visible manifestation of the thaw was a general fading, ungluing, cracking of power positions on both sides of the Iron Curtain. In the Soviet empire the melting process has produced popular uprising and high-level confusion as to how the empire should be managed (see below). In the free world...
...National Income or Gross National Product is made larger through debt financing, uses this fact to imply that: 1) our prosperity is a mirage; 2) the Republicans are to blame for the debt; and 3) that the Republicans are guilty of deceit in saying that this is an era of unmatched economic well-being. With these implications I cannot agree...
...really know the country. He was out of it, or else he was at Army posts, insulated and isolated." This seems an extremely narrow-minded viewpoint. Mr. Eisenhower, thanks to his vast experiences outside the U.S., is the one man best suited to guide a world power through an era which demands consideration and knowledge of all nations...
...Tacho's sons can somehow reproduce his rare blend of ruthlessness and charm, Nicaragua may see another era of tomblike peace. If not, the country is probably in for a tumultuous power scramble...
...believe that the thought police have given up, for there have been few, if any, concessions from university administrations or state legislatures which had set themselves up as the proper tribunals to judge professors' thoughts. They have not voluntarily withdrawn, although in some cases the courts have curtailed their era of operation. The court-denied areas, however, constitute practically the sum total of their withdrawal...