Word: eras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strong-arm handling of Juan Cordova was a measure of the disillusionment Castillo Armas has given his admirers of two years ago. Far from the hoped-for new era of democracy, Guatemala is slipping fast toward a dictatorship that gives reason for opposition from all quarters, then crushes its opponents under the slogan of antiCommunism...
...longer restricted to Moscow, easily get permission to travel outside, though they are still barred from strategic areas and Siberian slave camps. Censors no longer kill all references to "corrective labor camps," government shortcomings and bureaucratic bunglings in the U.S.S.R., agricultural shortages and criticism of anything from the Stalin era...
Indian policy toward Russia is affected to an incalculable degree by the fact that, like many another old Fabian Socialist, Nehru has never been quite able to get over the exultation he felt in 1917 when the Russian Revolution opened up a "Socialist" era in history. To an equally incalculable degree, India's policy toward the U.S. is affected by Nehru's upper-class Edwardian English contempt for the U.S. as a nation of "vulgar" people who talk about money. To a highly measurable degree, India's behavior toward any power is affected by the extent...
...past eleven years, the G.I. has been remarkably popular in West Germany, and the German press, on the whole, restrained in its treatment of G.I. lapses. This era of good feeling was now in jeopardy. "Gangsters and sex maniacs who still today believe they can treat our wives and daughters as game are undesired here," editorialized the sober official gazette of Rhineland-Palatinate...
...era in U.S. show business ended in Pittsburgh, and John Ringling North, hereditary boss of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, pronounced an epitaph: "The tented circus as it now exists is a thing of the past." Last of the surviving big-time big tops, Ringling struck its huge tent for the last time, packed up to limp back to winter quarters in Sarasota, Fla., though the season was but half over. The big show's ailments: television, labor troubles, miserable weather this year, and soaring costs. Starting next April, North added bravely, the circus will sally forth again...