Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bomb The Bomb. And, in its impulsive way, The Speech (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) had done what it could to vaporize the firm U.S. foreign policy which Secretary of State Byrnes was at long last on the point of achieving. It also released a ripple of verbal radioactivity in the European press and, more guardedly, in European foreign offices and chancelleries...
...government should draft a federal constitution under the eyes of the Allied Control Council. He promised again: German industry would be restored. (Buried forever was the Morgenthau plan to reduce Germany to pastoral impotency.) War industries would be removed and eliminated, but Germany would be allowed to maintain "average European living standards...
...state of Europe's devastated universities partly explained the shift from previous world centers-Germany, France and England. So, too, did the fact that for war-weary European youths the U.S. looked like the best place to get away from it all. But U.S. technological strides, especially in engineering and medicine, were the biggest lure...
...architectural purists St. Pat's was a somewhat lumpy mixture of the Cologne and Rouen cathedrals, with a touch of Westminster Abbey inside. They pointed out that some of its supports and buttresses, borrowed from European cathedrals, where they were essential parts of the structure, were pasted on to St. Pat's merely for looks. Repairs had exposed brick underpinnings; proved its marble beauty skin-deep...
...reasons:1) quarantine restrictions keep them out of most European countries, which grow a good many potatoes anyway; 2) in overseas shipping, handling costs and spoilage run high; 3) dehydrated potatoes cost about 25? a lb., as compared to 5? or 6? a Ib. for wheat...