Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British troops in a beleaguered fortress. ... All the same ... to have spent the last few days behind its doomed defenses was to fall inevitably into nostalgic and melancholy mood. Ramzak was a challenging flight of military fancy. ... It was called 'the largest monastery in the world.' . . . No [European] woman has ever been within 60 miles, except the six ENSA [British USO] girls, who arrived for one night in June 1944, and left their high-heeled footprints in the soft cement outside the Brigade Headquarters mess. This monument remains, to the puzzlement of the tribesmen...
Participants: The 16 Paris conferees* Western .Germany. The door was left open for other European nations which might subscribe to the plan. A special plan for China aid would be presented during the next session of Congress...
University education is mediocre, due first to overemphasis on sports, second to lack of a scale of values. The practical-minded American law schools turn out lawyers but no jurists. Medical schools emphasize laboratory and Xray, not European clinical methods of study...
Like the rest of the world, Canada was anxious to see what the U.S.'s European Recovery Program (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) would look like when Congress got through with it. As laid out by President Truman, it called for the spending of $2,615 million by the U.S. in other Western Hemisphere countries in the 15 months ending June 30, 1949. Canadians hoped, with good reason, that it would mean enough U.S. dollars to solve the Dominion's foreign exchange troubles...
...indeed an age of Faith and Hope, but not often of Charity. Revenge was a point of honor, and perennial feuds cursed the children of families and states alike. The blood of the unjustly slain, which flows like an ever-widening river through the embattled landscape of European history, was already running deep...