Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wonder. Europe's pride is the tender and assertive pride of age. The fashion now among such British intellectuals as Novelist Evelyn Waugh and Essayist Cyril Connolly is to say that only the dying old have life, and that the life and vigor of America are the world's true death. At earthier levels, the feeling is usually met in the adjective "bloody" which is indulgently prefixed to anything American-including our aid. We must not let irritation at these manifestations blind us to their meaning, which in its crudest terms is simply that we will get more...
...greatest error would by to fashion our foreign policy merely in terms of anti-Communism...
...report had been drawn up in routine fashion by the committee staff, Vandenberg explained, and had not been reviewed by the committee itself. Said Vandenberg: "I think it is obvious that certain reforms in the Chinese government and the basic Chinese economy are necessary . . . [but] I deeply respect the tremendous patriotic labors and the integrity of the great and courageous Generalissimo. ... I have always supported and continue to support him against the armed Chinese Communists...
...Yoshiko's strange life. She was born, the Princess Chin Pi-hui (Radiant Jade) of the Manchu dynasty, overthrown in 1911 by China's Sun Yatsen. She had been adopted by a member of Japan's powerful Black Dragon society, renamed Yoshiko (Beautiful One), reared man-fashion in the warrior code of Nippon. As a girl she dedicated herself to the overthrow of the Chinese Republic and the restoration of her house. She became a Japanese spy, masquerading as a taxi-dancer, a Chinese soldier, even as a Korean prostitute (Chinese officers preferred them). She came...
...years, lantern-jawed Joe McCarthy helped fashion the Yankee legend. "You're a Yankee, young man," he hammered at his ballplayers. The name itself, lettered across a baseball uniform, became a symbol of invincibility. With Marse Joe as manager, the powerful New York Yankees won eight American League pennants before he stepped out of baseball two years ago. When he stepped back in again this spring, as manager of the archenemy Boston Red Sox, his old legend came back to haunt...