Word: prewar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...considerable cost to their own self-respect, the Yugoslavs-whose Party Congress is already being cold-shouldered by Western Socialist Parties because Tito has two prewar Socialist leaders behind bars-humbly worded their program in a more pro-Soviet manner. Khrushchev decided that the change was not enough, and Red China and all the Communist satellites followed suit in boycotting the Ljubljana meeting. In isolation but still firmly in control of his own show, Tito last week allowed himself to be unanimously re-elected President of Yugoslavia for a third term of four years. In a speech before Parliament...
...chipped away at the Anglo-Saxon political concepts of Japan's 1946 "MacArthur Constitution." presses for at least a partial return to the hierarchical, authoritarian traditions native to Japan. By order of the Kishi government, Japanese schoolchildren will soon find themselves doing playground drill in the militaristic prewar fashion, and will be subjected to regular doses of "moral education...
After the war, Alec resumed his prewar stride with scarcely a hitch, and somehow there seemed to be more muscle in it. In the 1946-47 season he played a deeply original Fool that struck the critics almost as strongly as Olivier's Lear, and he did a swingeing good De Guiche in Guthrie's Cyrano. About the same time he considered working in the movies ("On the stage I never seemed to have a chance to wear trousers"), and Director David Lean gave him the role of Herbert Pocket, the young swell in Great Expectations. The next...
...returned from one prewar trip to convince his father that cars had it all over camels-a message that was to cost Saudi millions for air-conditioned Cadillacs. But as Saudi princes go, Feisal lives modestly, restricting himself to a couple of modest palaces and only one wife, to whom he has been married for 22 years...
...PHILIPPINES. The only large and economically important colony ever held by the U.S. got its independence, according to prewar promise, on July 4, 1946. (Puerto Rico, offered independence, chose to remain tied to the U.S. as a semi-autonomous "commonwealth...