Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hope to crush Nasser without much bloodshed. If we do, we will be rid of an ambitious dictator who not only threatens our oil interests and our Suez Canal status and stings our pride, but with his ambitious Arab nationalism threatens the whole security of European civilization...
Clive Gray, former NSA vice-president in charge of international affairs, will attempt to gather a group of European students to observe Hungarian student conditions. If he is unable to obtain a visa he plans to stay in Vienna to find out about student conditions from Hungarian refugees in Austria...
...Uruguay a large part of the $25.5 million World Bank loan was made in West German marks, and the rest in Swedish kronor, Swiss francs, and other currencies to allow the country's nationalized electric-power system to buy equipment from European bidders. The specific Uruguayan project: a hydroelectric power plant at Rincón de Biagorria on the Rio Negro complete with transmission and distribution facilities. The new plant will increase Uruguay's power production...
...administration has no African policy at all; its Middle Eastern policy has crumbled; its Asian policy is discredited by the absence of a new understanding with China and its dependence upon SEATO; its South American policy has failed to progress from paper resolutions to real economic cooperation; and its European policy has failed, utterly, to retain the confidence of key allies who were forced by the lack of firm U.S. leadership to take matters into their own intemperate hands. This is a policy of no-policy, and deserves repudiation...
...much beauty that death holds no terror. He remembers how quickly the lovely bronzed Polynesians fade, how at 30 their "faces become shrivelled and deformed . . . and bodies which were formerly shapely either swell or collapse into meagreness." His beautiful Tahitian mistress had come home with him, but in European clothes her soft body loses form and boldness, her sandaled feet seem flat and ugly. Palabaud dies peacefully in a hospital bed, his mind awash with memories of the sea he had always loved. A few shreds of his corpse are sent to the laboratory, where, under the microscope, "an unfamiliar...