Word: iii
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through the uproar, the U.S., long ago used to a standard British label-"the irresponsible Americans"-kept its composure, though there was ample reason for exasperation at Britain's reaction. Too many Britons are too ready to believe that Washington is aching to plunge into World War III. Britain's government-Labor or Tory-has been lax about telling Britons the facts of life in Korea, has kept alive the notion that the best way to peace is to be nice to Mao Tse-tung. Britain's newspapers have treated the Korean fighting as a dull, disagreeable...
...those 41 years, Alice Gould has made quite a name for herself in her special wonderland, for the Archives contain the world's richest collection of documents about the Spanish exploration of the New World. Ever since 1778, when Charles III ordered that all letters, papers and maps concerned with the colonies be assembled in one place, scholars have been flocking to Seville. But the most tireless researcher of them all-from Washington Irving and Martin Fernández de Navarrete to Harvard's Samuel Eliot Morison-has been Alice Bache Gould...
Jones and Maria have drawn up a chart for easy reference, using Maria's designations: White the married, who liked lamb and pork, but no shrimp; White the father of Cricket (Frank White III), who liked fruits, eggs, bacon and pastries; and White the criança (youngster), who refused milk and potatoes for fear of becoming White the fat. Now, when the name of Senhor White comes up, Maria goes to the kitchen, consults the chart and points out which one she means...
When Michael von Faulhaber became Archbishop of Munich in 1917, King Ludwig III still sat on his shadow-throne in Bavaria and the old order of Europe, if crumbling, was not yet gone. Archbishop Faulhaber reached his new archdiocese from the trenches of Germany's Western Front: he had gone to war as a chaplain in 1914, although he was already 45, a bishop and a celebrated Biblical scholar. He was the first German prelate to win the Iron Cross...
Wars were plotted, says the hero, in order to keep the President and his party in power. After Germany's defeat, Russia was built up until she was strong enough to be a respectable antagonist. During World War III (in which Russia was destroyed) the Republican Party was liquidated and the U.S. Dictatorship formally established...