Word: millennium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both Zionists and Arabs protested. The Zionists claimed that their land area was not enough, that it would be "ghettoization." The Arabs could see no reason for "federation" of an area which has been Arab for the last millennium. Britain invited Arabs and Jews to discuss the plan at a London conference...
Where Akbar Failed. If India, with its diverse tongues, its anachronistic princes and princelings, its millennium of dependence on the rule of outsiders, could become a nation in the Western sense, the achievement would be one of the greatest triumphs of history. In E. M. Forster's A Passage to India, a Moslem character, Dr. Aziz, recalled that the great Mogul Emperor Akbar had worked with tolerance and wisdom to unite India, had even attempted to devise a new unifying faith. But, says Dr. Aziz: "Nothing embraces the whole of India-nothing, nothing, and that was Akbar...
...truce between the National Government and the Communists was not the millennium; the road ahead was rocky with grave issues. But not since V-J day had China's prospects seemed so good...
...content for long with 15%. But there was no law against hoping; Administration analysts hoped that by spring U.S. production-and profits-would be big enough to give a Boost to wages without a lift of prices. If done, it would be the neatest economic trick of the millennium...
...been tossed into the vestibule of another millennium. It was wonderful to think of what the Atomic Age might be, if man was strong and honest. But at first it was a strange place, full of weird symbols and the smell of death...