Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians, of course, had refused to go along with the reform in their own zone. They put the event to their own use by halting all road and rail traffic into their zone, then set up the most rigid inspection yet for supply trains intended for western Berlin. At week's end the U.S. Army stopped supplying Berlin by rail rather than submit to the inspection. More clearly than ever before, Germany was partitioned...
Tempered Anarchy. Lady Pamela's concern for her father's future was occasioned by a historic event. Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Governor General of India, was leaving his post. His withdrawal was one more illustration of the general departure of the European master from Asia. Not only in India, but in every country in Asia, men were trying to fill the vacuum of power created by that departure. Communists believed that they, above all others, would succeed...
...event, the movement's leaders have now given concrete form to the earlier primitive mysticism. To boost their new party in the overcrowded upland states, they war on the ejido (communal land) politicos who often tyrannize the lives of the farmers; they promise the farmers absolute title to their little plots of ejido land. They also incite their fanatical followers to demonstrate against the smalltime grafting political bosses who rule many a village and town. In Leon, Tapachula and Oaxaca such demonstrations led to street fighting and the death of Sinarquistas. When, over the past 18 months, the Aleman...
...West claimed a sizable victory when the major apparently heaved Marxian determinism overboard. "Every historical event," the powers agreed, "is a result of the interaction and interdependence of ... economic factors, political factors, cultural and social factors." Just how complete the victory would be, Berlin school children would learn next fall when their history books arrive. Each power will write texts for its own sector, then get the approval of the other powers...
...usual arrangements to move the concert to Sanders Theatre in the event of rain will be in effect...