Word: maying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adenauer belongs in the ranks of Europe's Christian Democratic politicians, whose emergence to leadership in the West is one of the Continent's striking postwar phenomena. His Christian Democratic Union (C.D.U.), together with its political counterparts in Italy, France, Belgium and The Netherlands, may well prove to be the force to stem the assault of Communism and to bring about Europe's regeneration. He states his political credo simply: "Germany can be reconstructed on a sound basis only if she declares herself wholeheartedly for the Christian world of the West and all it stands...
...Iron Curtain countries today the only real opposition to the Communist regimes comes from the ranks of the churches. The Socialists may proclaim that they are the chief enemies to Communism, and in Berlin they have certainly demonstrated that fact, but what has happened in every Eastern European country the Communists have taken? The left-wing of the Socialist parties has always gone Communist under pressure...
England, my mother, Lift to my Western Sweetheart One full cup of English mead, breathing of the May...
...sang British Poet Alfred Noyes in America, My Sweetheart. Last week Britain was lifting a cup of mead to its American sweetheart, but the cup breathed less of May than of dollars. For the first time in 400 years, the English had turned to the manufacture of mead, a wine (fermented from honey) which was the drink of kings and commoners in England from Beowulf to Henry VIII.* At the village...
...several hundred well-voiced pigs at a nearby fair, Minister Mesta settled in her official residence. Even before arranging twelve photographs of her great & good friend Harry Truman, she received the press in her brown & ivory salon. "My President," she said, "thinks you are very, very, terribly important. You may be small, but we have a saying in my country that precious pearls come in small packages...