Word: old
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Contagious Tastes. The crumbling of the old national barriers is neither a conscious nor idealistic process. Says a cynical Parisienne: "If the whole youth of Europe was told, 'You are a unity from the Elbe to the Atlantic,' its answer would be, 'We could not care less.' " Yet, in practice, young Europeans recognize their kinship. "Wherever I go in Western Europe," says a Berlin physics student, "I feel as if we all have the same blood group. We don't really have to bother to get acquainted, because there's nothing strange about anybody...
...independence settlement might be endangered by Grivas' demagoguery, Makarios also began seriously considering a closed-door meeting with the fiery general to seek a truce. His only hesitation: the danger that by so doing, he might focus public attention on Grivas, thereby help to raise the unpredictable old soldier to the level of a real political threat in Greece...
...public debate of their differences. Makarios, too cagey to be lured into an encounter where" he would, in effect, be standing public trial with Grivas as his prosecutor, promptly refused. At that, Bishop Kyprianos came out in public support of Grivas. Worse yet, Kyprianos raked up once again the old, emotion-charged issue of enosis-union of Cyprus and Greece-and urged Cypriots to denounce the settlement with Britain as "a national tragedy...
...Communist military court; simultaneously hints went out that, if everyone behaved, there might be sweeping amnesties for some of the several hundred nationalists languishing in Iraq's prisons. At week's end, Kassem was still maintaining his equilibrium, but his grisly balancing act lacked some of its old assurance...
...vacillations and tendency to flirt with political and religious extremists were largely responsible for the riots, Banda airily dismissed them as "one of those little outbreaks." It was a far less serious little outbreak that finally brought him down. His assassin turned out to be a 43-year-old monk who practices the traditional Ayurvedic (native) medicine-a secret method of treatment with herbs and massage. According to Colombo police, the monk bore a personal grudge against Banda, presumably because of his refusal to rid Ceylon of its modern doctors...