Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...united Italy. Off went the imperial message to Paris-"Great battle, great victory!"-though it had been such a blood bath that a Swiss traveler, Henri Dunant, shocked by the lack of medical facilities, hastily set up the beginnings of what became the International Red Cross. Like most European reminders of past alliances, this 19th century campaign had its awkward details (Napoleon III had then grabbed Nice and Savoy for himself), but De Gaulle was happy to invoke the memories of Magenta and Solferino as he landed in his sleek Caravelle jet plane at Milan's Malpensa Airport...
...Italians have oil ambitions of their own in the Arab Middle East, and would not think of jeopardizing them by getting involved in the Algerian question. They are happy to be buddies of France in NATO and the European Common Market, but Italians are not interested in undertaking any new adventures under the leadership of De Gaulle, preferring their U.S. connection more...
...import of blue-eyed, dimpled innocence who would be diced into smorgasbord by the flashing attack of Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson. Nobody was impressed by the fact that Johansson was undefeated in his 21 fights, last year had demolished No. 1 Contender Eddie Machen with the very same right. European heavyweights, however upright their intentions, traditionally have been horizontally inclined against American champions. And Patterson, 24, camping in a grubby New Jersey shack, grimly punishing himself in training with everything but a hair shirt, was determined to prove to detractors that he deserved the title...
Impressed by the wheat campaign, the Grain Sorghum Producers Association of Amarillo decided to spend $30,000 in the next two years to encourage European feed mills and farmers to buy more U.S. coarse grains. The U.S. Rice Export Association of New Orleans invested $35,000 in a market analysis, learned that most European groceries sell rice out of bins; thus the European housewife often does not know whether it will cook up as firm, separate kernels or a gluey mess. One U.S. rice processor, Dallas' Comet Rice Mills, is now invading European retail stores with brightly boxed, consumer...
This book is an evocative chronicle of the bridge, ranging the 350 years from its building by a 16th century grand vizier, as a link between the European and Asian halves of the Ottoman Empire, to its near destruction in World War I. At Visegrad, in what is now Yugoslavia, the right bridge had found the right people, an amiable mixture of Serbs, Jews and Turks with an immoderate love of women, an inclination to alcohol and laziness and a dislike of war, for they were men who "preferred to live foolishly rather than to die foolishly...