Word: realm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into one of the world's wealthiest and least persecuted Judaic communities. By the 19th century, the Rothschilds, Montagus and Samuelses made Jews a force to reckon with in British finance. Today, 40 members of Parliament are Jews, as well as 61 knights and 20 peers of the realm. Although Jews are expected to congregate at their own country clubs, there is comparatively little overt anti-Semitism in Britain-one of the few nations where Jews were never forced to cluster together in ghettos...
...Business. While the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretaries made the sweeping decisions that extended the British realm, the Colonial Office minded the less dramatic chores of the empire. It set up the famed London School of Tropical Medicine, waged successful wars against malaria and the tsetse fly. Under its direction, Britain became the first modern nation to extend developmental aid to backward areas of the world, and its officers helped train a substantial segment of the world in methods of administering government and running essential health, educational and financial services...
Climate of Détente. Yet the climax of De Gaulle's grand tour proved an anticlimax for those who had anticipated-or feared-immediate and concrete results in the realm of East-West relations. Back in Moscow, De Gaulle met again with Brezhnev and Kosygin to prepare a 2,000-word "declaration of intent." Both sides held firm to their positions on German reunification, De Gaulle refusing to agree to East German recognition and the Russians remaining rigid in their support of the European status quo. Both sides concurred in their earlier demands...
...American Idealists. He was a thinker who persistently denied that philosophy was simply an armchair pur suit. "If the teachings of a philosopher seem esoteric or divorced from reality," he once said, "it's the fault of the phi losopher." Hocking himself vigorously applied his vision to the realm of pub lic debate. He championed the Arab cause against Israel and criticized the cold-war policy of John Foster Dulles as being too negative. He was unafraid to prophesy: he once predicted that "we shall see in the Orient the rise of a Christianity far outpassing that which...
...high-club distinction between intellectual and social companions extends beyond the realm of male friendship. Many members of the most highly regarded clubs--the Porcellian, the A.D., the Fly, the Delphic, and the Spee--make similar distinctions among their female associates...