Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loud-lowing Democratic Senator Elmer Thomas called a press conference. During his six-week, 14-country tour of Europe, he had reprimanded the Swedes for not entertaining him properly, had miffed Belgian reporters by exhibiting (but not opening) ostentatiously displayed bottles of Scotch whisky, and had trampled other European toes by praising Spain's Franco and calling for rearmament of the Germans...
...British request, e.g., "programs" to "programmes") to produce a statement which revealed almost nothing of the real plans; newsmen called it the "blackout communique." It was known, however, that the "strategic concepts" had settled a long-standing controversy: they called for defense of the West on the Western European plain-not from behind the Pyrenees or the far side of the English Channel...
...India has become politically independent, and there are great waves of unrest and portents of early struggles for independence in many parts of Africa. A missionary movement which is basically controlled by personnel from despised European powers (and belonging to the white race) is viewed with growing suspicion...
...necessarily a form of sin or even frivolity and that a possible valid reason for pursuing this or that branch of knowledge was merely that they were interested in it.... I could see that I was thought to be expounding what is vaguely thought of as the 'European' point of view-at best something exotic and over-refined, at worst cynical and slightly sinister...
...means of reaching the peoples behind the Iron Curtain, Flanders suggested the seemingly ridiculous device of the free balloon, dropping pictures and simple reading matter at intervals as it floats over the enormous areas of European Russia...