Word: pasted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British motorists face a horror largely unknown in the U.S.: the driver whose car displays, front and back, the big red L sign that stands for "learner." Disregarding double lines, painted arrows, blinking lights, rules of the road and the prospect of dismemberment and death, many L drivers whip past trucks on hills and blind curves, weave nonchalantly from lane to lane on the few big throughways. Picnicking on Sunday, drivers blithely leave their cars parked in the path of traffic. Last month 515 Britons died in traffic accidents; 23,277 were injured. The British death rate per auto-miles...
Said the Frankfurter Allgemeine: "A great number of our schoolteachers seem to lack courage to discuss our ugly past with their students." Asked the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung: "Can we afford to raise a generation of young people who know nothing about Hitler except that he had a funny little mustache...
After ten minutes of fighting, the senior army officer present finally ordered his men to clear a path for Inonu's car. (As the aging hero rolled past, many an army officer respectfully sprang to attention.) At Sultan Ahmet Square, site of the hippodrome where Byzantine mobs once fought out their political differences, a crowd of 7,000 broke through police lines to cheer Inonu with cries of "Hurriyet!" (Freedom). Police tried tear gas, only to have their grenades thrown back at them by foresighted demonstrators who came equipped with gloves. Undeterred by all the fighting, Inonu moved...
...world tour, full of cheer and confidence, assured of the U.S.'s continued $50 million-a-year financial subsidy, young (23) King Hussein abruptly ended the fifth premiership in 15 years of his able but unpopular strongman. It was a sure sign that the King felt safely past the crisis created in Amman by last year's murder of his Hashemite cousin, Iraq's King Feisal...
Frondizi turned his back on his leftist past, turned toward economic orthodoxy. Today the improved climate for foreign investment has resulted in deals for $1.2 billion of new foreign capital, and the Communist and Peronista-run unions have been sharply curbed; e.g., out of 95 labor organizations, four operate under army orders, 13 are run by government interventors...