Word: poste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...generally held in check. Last week, at 83, under the duress of his days and years, der Alte came to his loneliest decision. Suddenly and dramatically, the greatest German Chancellor since Bismarck signified his readiness to give up his powerful office after ten years, for the more honorific post of President. It was his own decision, and yet the emotional overtones of his act showed that he was reluctantly anticipating a painful reality...
Lobe Trotter. In Wilmington, Del., a letter turned up at the post office bearing a glueless stamp held in place by an earring...
...brutal sun, the distant howls of hyenas. Belele has a fort, a few British officers, a power plant that is as unreliable as the loyalty of the natives. The Italians still remaining are despised by their British successors, who are themselves aware that service in such a post is proof of their personal failure. The natives live in age-old ignorance and squalor, the desert villages are outposts of pure savagery, and the rabble-rousing nationalists are free to work their political magic...
...President said he had not made up his mind regarding a successor. He promised to fill the post "as quickly as practicable." Reports continued that Undersecretary Christian A. Herter is the most likely choice...
...debunking the black-and-white picture of the world that many Americans have drawn, Williams casts doubt doubt upon the entire Western outlook. But as long as the Western posly to the inter-war period and to post war relations with the underdeveloped ition is based--as essentially it must be--on true self-determination and not on self-determination as acceptance of the American way, Williams' doubts may be unnecessary. On the other hand, such expressions as Dulles' attacks on "antheistic" Communism have an ideological, propagandistic tone that Williams and others may usefully call into question...