Word: pastes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kennan, like almost all U.S. officials, dismissed the possibility of an Asiatic Marshall Plan, or a Pacific version of the North Atlantic Treaty. But, he reasoned, Southeast Asia is potentially self-sufficient, and still tied flimsily to the West by frayed cords of the past. He thought the West might be able to build that part of the world into a loose, anti-Communist economic federation by friendly assistance and some money...
...comparison with other big cities, no slums. Its great boulevards wind through miles of windblown trees, bright flowers and sweeping, emerald-green lawns. It is a Western town, with the memory of Deadwood and Virginia City in its bones; in its love of display, its detachment from the past and its obsession with its own destiny, it is simply striking the attitude of the gold seeker and the trail blazer...
...obituary," said Themistocles Sophoulis, "will be a history of Greece for the past century...
Many other Greeks wept too, less perhaps over Sophoulis than over Greece's past century...
...most of the outport fishing hamlets or to Labrador, the sea is the main highway. Sturdy little coastal boats and black-hulled schooners sail in & out of deep fiords and past bold escarpments...