Word: erne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slippers, whether the owners were studying ballet or not. Dozens of school companies present productions whenever they can, while three big TV stations offer regular ballet shows. It has all the appearance of a fad, for Japan's own ancient, formalized dance tradition is as different from West ern ballet as Kabuki is from burlesque. But underneath the surface is a foundation of serious interest...
Marshall knows that he and the South ern federal judges he respects are checked by the same steely framework of the Anglo-American legal tradition and, especially, the U.S. Constitution. He says: "The difference between the Constitution and the law is something a lot of people don't seem to appreciate. The law can fluctuate because of the changing whims of the people and their legislators. But the whole purpose of the Constitution is to serve as an instrument which cannot be changed overnight, which does not change when mores and customs change...
...inroads of civilization and the disintegration of the ancestral myths have made "duck-billing" a dying custom. Only a few elderly believers are still alive. Even they have shown a tendency to go mod ern; instead of the old wooden plugs, the Fali women are turning to plastic lip plugs, preferably colored bright...
Promoted to command NATO's North ern Army Group: General Sir Gerald Templer, 55, able, hard-boiled British professional who in two years of jungle fighting has mastered the Communist threat to rubber-rich Malaya. Austere and dedicated, Sandhurstman Templer found Malaya in despair, with the Red guerrillas everywhere pressing harder; his counterattack matched their ferocity, in two years reduced the average monthly toll of murders and other "incidents" from...
...maintain internal security) was almost completed and that the troops could be withdrawn. Later, before the Senate Armed Services Committee, MacArthur testified that he had concurred in the decision to withdraw the troops from Korea. Around the time of the Mac-Arthur report, State Department's Far East ern experts and policy planners (among them John Davies, whose role in Far Eastern policy is still controversial) worked up a new policy paper (NSC-8/2) for the National Security Council. In it, MacArthur's advice was misrepresented: he was quoted as saying that the combat readiness...