Word: europeanizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such confidence in Eisenhower the President-as opposed to Ike the friend-had been strangely long in coming. Only a few weeks ago, much of the European press-and especially the British press-was still painting Dwight Eisenhower as a weak President, racked by illness, sapped by age and barely able to carry on. Indeed, long after it should have known better, part of the U.S. press had been describing Ike in similar terms. The dismal picture of President Eisenhower had its basis in the three major illnesses he suffered in three successive years, illnesses that could only detract from...
Standard-Bearer. It was the announcement of Dwight Eisenhower's European trip, to be followed by his exchange of visits with Khrushchev, that brought a tide of praise for the "New Eisenhower" -a phrase used to describe the Eisenhower who had in fact been around for quite a while. And in its every phase, the trip was a tribute to the presidential recognition Ike had been so long in winning...
...homeland to a waning but graceful and distinctively Japanese art-the woodblock print. But the clean, flat patterns of Japanese printers had a major influence on Western painters from Whistler to Matisse. A century later, the influence has been reversed. Japanese artists, freshly inspired by the works of European post-impressionists and abstractionists, are breathing new life into an old form...
...Dark Continent is, like no other place on earth, dark at night. After the cook fires are out, superstition flourishes. Ghana's Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah once explained the need for rural electrification by saying, "One electric light drives away the ghosts." The most sophisticated-politicians, graduates of European universities, have solemnly accused their opponents of raising juju against them...
...Siegfried Line and thus end the war in Europe by a single-front thrust. Operation Market Garden failed. Though the U.S. 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions won their objectives, the British ist Airborne met disaster, was chopped to ribbons by two German Panzer divisions in one of the European Theater's sharpest setbacks along the road to victory...