Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stunning victory opened the eyes of Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall, and soon Ike began moving surefootedly upward through the stars of generalship. Right after Pearl Harbor, Marshall made him assistant chief of war plans, then chief, then ordered Ike to draw up an organization plan for the European Theater. So well was it drawn that, on Marshall's urging, Franklin Roosevelt reached far down through the ranks to appoint Ike the ETO's Commander in Chief...
...bogged-down U.S. that Ike was working out his own political philosophy and amassing some more civilian and diplomatic qualifications. From his job as president of Columbia University (1948-50) President Truman recalled him to command and to fuse the forces of NATO, the heart of U.S. and Western European foreign policy. There Ike began to hear the mounting summons of Republicans and independents ("What a mess our blessed nation is in," the dying Senator Vandenberg had cried, adding hopefully, "Thank God for Eisenhower") urging him to come home...
Bitter Experience. Meneghini has spent a fortune on her career, but without regrets ("After all, my wife is the greatest singer in the world"). Whenever she goes onstage, he kisses her, utters the customary European good-luck wish, "Merde." He presents her with a bright cluster of expensive jewelry every time she sings a new role, gave her an Alfa Romeo ("If an ordinary artist has a Cadillac, how can I own a Cadillac?"), and a four-storied, $100,000 town house in Milan...
Three faculty members agreed that the recent uprisings in Poland are of very great importance to the future of Soviet Russia's domination of its eastern European sattellites, but all doubted that Russia would use force to bring Poland back under its domination...
...been able to climb. After seducing the prosecutor assigned to throw her out of town for risque performances she continues with an austere provincial judge, and then "The Minister" in Paris. These four leading parts are all neatly cast, as are the many juicy minor roles in which such European films abound. The judge's wife is a coy hippopotamus; his maid is a laughing machine. The minister's major domo is a Machiavelli in bell-boy's clothes, while the underling who must constantly rewrite his chief's spur of the moment decrees is a charming harassed guppy...