Word: notted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though it classified them as "a liberated people," the U.S. has sometimes treated Okinawans less generously in occupation than the Japanese did. The battle of Okinawa completely wrecked the island's simple farming and fishing economy: in a matter of minutes, U.S. bulldozers smashed the terraced fields which Okinawans...
General Sheetz believes that the U.S. has far more than strategic interests on Okinawa: it carries, he says, "the moral responsibility of a Christian people to others." Sheetz, Kincaid and their staff are facing up to that responsibility; they are determined not to let Okinawa down.
Some of his fellow Communists, said Poland's President Boleslaw Bierut, had been "politically blind." What they had not seen was the Red handwriting on the wall: Stalin had slated Poland for all-out economic and military colonization. A purge of the blind was inevitable.
Policy Partnership. Secretary Pearson's speech turned out to be one of the most forthright statements of foreign policy ever made in the Canadian Parliament. In 90 minutes, he made it clear that the old Canadian policy of stringing along calmly with Britain and the U.S., developed and consistently...
The Duchess of Windsor divulged to the readers of Vogue that the life of a brilliant international hostess is strewn with heartaches and pitfalls. "Any dinner of more than 16 people," wrote the Duchess, "I consider enormous. More than eight persons means no souffle-always a melancholy omission . . . Anybody who...