Word: spheres
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were signs that the Russians themselves, usually astute in such matters, had recognized the existence of a genuine, popular Opposition and were adjusting themselves to the facts of political life in their European sphere...
...gravitation of the Baltic nations to Russia is only the natural union at the Slavic peoples, and cannot be averted. If the western nations would keep out of Russia's sphere of influence in the Balkans and recognize that fact, the stability of Europe's politics would again be restored...
Some seemed sincerely thankful that the Americans had arrived. Said a merchant prince to two visiting Americans: the Greater East Asia Sphere had long been a mockery. Critical shortages of materials had begun to wreck the empire a year ago. It was all the military's fault. The public expected Tojo and other war criminals to be tried. When Saipan fell, the people knew the war was lost. Those who had been in the U.S. (including the merchant prince) knew it was hopeless when it started. The merchant poured three drinks and toasted the Americans: "To your safe arrival...
After 40 years, Japan had lost the rugged peninsula (as big as Great Britain) from which she had launched her Co-Prosperity Sphere. Soviet Russia had be come a power in the empire outpost which Tsarist Russia coveted...
Then from faraway Boston came a body blow. Nelson Rockefeller, the conciliatory U.S. Assistant Secretary of State in charge of Latin American affairs, stood up at a Pan-American dinner and denounced Argentina as "the black sheep" of the hemi sphere family...