Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rouse military ambitions to swallow up" former German lands to the East. To stir up latent Western antagonisms toward Germany, Khrushchev asserted: "Economically, West Germany is flying at .the throat of its West European allies." 'TO frighten Wrest Germans, he warned that their "geographical position" and Soviet "modern military techniques" ensure that "West Germany's drive to the East would be a drive to death." and that West Germany could not "survive one day of modern war." To Walter Lippmann. Khrushchev turned right around and warned the West that, to avoid "suicidal" missile war, the Germans would probably...
Ever since Dictator Mustafa Kemal Ataturk overturned and reformed the Islamic rigidities of the Ottoman Empire in 1924, Turkish women by the thousands have come out from behind the veil, taken up short skirts and modern ideas. Polygamy was outlawed. But in Istanbul last week there sounded a still, small voice from the past. Lawyer Osman Nuri Lermioglu, a Democratic Deputy from Trabzon on the Black Sea, presented Parliament with a draft bill that would allow a Turk legally to have two wives, but only if the first wife were ill or sterile. To prove that he was no Terrible...
...match any other Arab in anti-Israeli invective). With dignity and courage, Jamali said he had favored Arab unity but not under Nasser, nor by Nasser's sleazy methods. Jamali had supported Iraq's membership in the Baghdad Pact because he saw only two possibilities for a modern state, either "strength or alliance with one of the big blocs. We are not strong, and therefore we must join an alliance. I chose the West...
...have based your headline and lead sentence, can be understood only in the context of the entire lecture. Further, that a Harvard reporter can state in one paragraph, "He called for a return to a cyclical religion," and two paragraphs later report that Bishop Newbigin "further observed that modern western society cannot have the cyclical, chronological view point found in the East," is almost beyond belief. The article's final sentence, while like most of the others it is highly distorted, indicates that your staff member did remain in the church to the end of the lecture and serves further...
...most of his remarks to India, the country he knows so well. The eastern cultures have now asumed the western, and are facing the world with a new serenity and sureness of their own position. Nehru, for instance, is now saying that all things are ours, whether ancient or modern, eastern or western...