Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fancied Grievances." In schoolmaster fashion, Dulles spelled out the ABCs of the situation. The Suez Canal was by far the world's busiest waterway. It was open by international agreement at all hours to all vessels, and was vital to the West. Nasser had recognized the international status of the waterway only a couple of years ago, but now Nasser had nationalized the Canal Company "for purely selfish purposes...
Disappearing Divisions.In more formal fashion, another noted traveler also made the rounds. After Panama, U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles dropped in on Colombia's Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. The implied honor to Rojas, who was the Panama conference's No. 1 absentee, angered Colombians who oppose the self-made strongman. Moving to Ecuador, Dulles restored the balance by pointedly praising Ecuador's "firm support of constitutional processes." Then the Secretary of State flew off to the inauguration of Peru's Manuel Prado (see below...
...Discovery of India. For a few years after his return to India, the rebel in Nehru was submerged in the English gentleman. He settled down in Allahabad, married a suitable Kashmiri Brahman girl (chosen by his father) and practiced law in desultory fashion. But before long, boredom and the rising tide of Indian nationalism swept him into the revolutionary politics of the Indian National Congress Party. And once he met Gandhi, the die was cast. Two men more diverse than Nehru and the frail little Mahatma could hardly be imagined. Devoted to the scientific socialism of the tractor...
...Possible Caesar. An article in an Indian magazine, the Modern Review, written in 1936, described Nehru in this fashion: "Men like Jawaharlal, with all their capacity for great and good work, are unsafe in a democracy. He calls himself a democrat and a socialist, and no doubt he does so in all earnestness, but every psychologist knows that the mind is ultimately slave to the heart . . . Jawahar has all the makings of a dictator in him-vast popularity, a strong will, ability, hardness, an intolerance for others and a certain contempt for the weak and inefficient... Is it not possible...
...lleum? For Ike's kind of regional ileitis the fashion in operations has gone through three main phases. At first it was taken for granted that the only thing to do was to cut the diseased section of ileum out of the body and attach the cut end of the ileum to the colon. But this was a relatively long and bloody procedure. It gave no better results than two types of bypass operations, which came into fashion next (see diagram). In one, the type performed on Ike, a healthy loop of ileum is drawn up and spliced into...