Word: prewar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Since prewar days, U.S. and British diplomats in Moscow have been trailed by bodyguards supplied by the Russian authorities "for protection." Last week U.S. Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen, flying back to Moscow after a visit to Washington, was surprised to find no bodyguard to greet him at the airport and himself free for the first time to move about without escort. This is the kind of change meant to be regarded as a "slight improvement in relations...
...other most frequent American criticism of our general attitude to China and to Russia is that we are "appeasers." They contrast this with our disapproval of the prewar appeasement of Hitler...
...verdict: the worst crop in twelve years. Japan, which even in good years must import rice (mainly from Siam), will be able to buy only about 1,000,000 tons, since prices are so high ($213 a ton) and most rice-surplus countries are lagging behind their prewar production...
...chaplain was Lieut. Colonel Warren E. Ferguson, 38, a veteran of the Normandy and northern France campaigns who holds the Silver Star and Purple Heart, and a Southern Baptist who did his prewar preaching in Tupelo, Miss...
Between Thick Slices ... It is of such romantic problems that soap operas are made. Amid the violent wrenchings of the radio-TV industry, 26 serials (radio's prewar high: 65) are still fixed in the daytime hours of NBC (12) and CBS (14). The two major networks have thoughtfully arranged their soap blocks so that a housewife so inclined could begin her day with Rosemary at 11:45 a.m. on CBS, weep her way through 6¼ hours until the final orchestra strains of NBC's The Doctor's Wife...