Word: european
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...European money crisis only dramatized what many experts have long regarded as an unassailable dictum: the free world's monetary system is overdue for an overhaul. That system-the internationally agreed basis for exchanging one currency for another-was born 24 years ago in the resort town of Bretton Woods, N.H. Imbued with a sense of wartime unity and mindful that competitive currency devaluations had deepened and prolonged the Depression of the '30s, the delegates from 45 nations took only three weeks to devise the fundamentals...
More of everything-particularly 'big, rich, fat, square Christmas books-seems to be the order of the season. Many are bought at the Frankfurt Book Fair from enterprising European publishers and imported wholesale. Several contain perfunctory yet prolix texts by scholars who take the money but regard the work as intellectual slumming; and the pictures are stuck in at random like plums in a Christmas pudding. Each year, though, a few more big books show encouraging signs of aim and editing. Still others are notable for size, subject matter, outrageous pricing and, occasionally, sheer beauty. Among the selections listed...
...effect, Gomulka was suggesting second-class berths for weaker parties, and Western European Communists were furious. The leaders of French and Italian delegations both rose to announce that their parties intended to travel "our road toward socialism," as Italian Giancarlo Pajetta put it. Rumanian Delegate Chivu Stoica also declined to line up behind Gomulka's thesis. Russian Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev plumped for the Kremlin's long-sought Communist summit, which was postponed indefinitely after the invasion. But it was all too clear that European Communists are in no mood to convene in harmony...
...height of irresponsibility." By the same token, supporters of the Johnson Administration's free-trade policies have been concerned about intimations by Nixon's aides that the U.S. might adopt a more protectionist attitude toward some imported goods, including Japanese textiles and Canadian auto parts. Nonetheless, European businessmen and moneymen, while also worried about the possibility of restrictive trade measures, express confidence that...
...Endeavor's, wreck on the Great Barrier Reef, refitting at Charco Harbour (socalled because the aborigines greeted them by shouting "Charco!"), the escape and return of a seaman named Saunders who lived with the natives for a while and discovered gold. The voyage also seems to have occasioned European man's first sight of the kangaroo (it was taken...