Word: globally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Driberg's pettifogging lacks even a professional air. Because many people can find many diverse factors to blame in our present global mess, he assumes that none of these has any significance. And his refusal to compare Russian cruelty with the Nazis' "calculated" horror is a kind of ghastly hairsplitting...
...Less than a decade ago men were talking of a 'brave new world,' a world of four universal freedoms ... of nations united and peoples at peace in a reign of concord and prosperity within a global new Arcady. Such a Pollyanna outlook . . . was described by one astute critic in the early '40s as 'Dawnism,' the ingenuous expectation that the millennium was at hand, or at the very most a political conference or two away...
...divided world watched in united suspense last week as the people of West Germany fought the cold war with ballots. The battle, crucial to the global struggle between the democratic West and the Communist East, swirled around one man-Chancellor Konrad Adenauer...
Adenauer's Nightmare. But the Kremlin's new rulers, shrewdly turning necessity into advantage, and defense into offense, had also made the most dramatic maneuver yet in their global peace offensive. One obvious intention: to make the prospect of German unity seem so real that the bulk of West Germany's 30 million voters this September will oust the government of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who opposes unification until West Germany is rearmed and allied to NATO...
...Neal McNaughton. engineering manager of the NARTB, forecast worldwide TV within ten years, explained: "The answer to global television lies in a submarine cable that will use a transistor repeater unit, smaller than a cigarette, to augment microwave relays between the continents of the world...