Word: spheres
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congo Cardinal? The two traditional seats vacant within the Russian sphere of influence-Prague and Warsaw-may not be filled. Said one Vatican spokesman: "It would be humiliating for the Holy See if those governments delayed or refused exit permits, as they did to Mindszenty, even though it is not absolutely necessary for a newly created cardinal to be present at the consistory." In the particular case of Prague's Archbishop Beran, some Catholic authorities fear that the Communist government would consider his elevation a provocative act, and retaliate by attacking...
Many a shocked compatriot on shore remembered how these men had sailed away, in the days of the Co-Prosperity Sphere, with a similar purposeful spirit and disciplined jingoist chants. The official welcoming party-talkative bureaucrats, beaming Red Cross nurses, bustling newsmen-waited on a bare wooden dock in Maizuru harbor, with blue, cloud-flecked hills and stark rusted cranes of the former naval base as backdrop. The 2,000 lined up rigidly, listened stonily to the effusive greetings, responded with chilling precision. A close-cropped ex-army captain stepped stiffly forward. "Some of us," he barked, "have not seen...
...world's great trading nations, had supported itself from markets around the world; its best customers were the U.S., China and India. By ruthless seizure it was the master of fabulously wealthy Manchuria, the chief prize in the treasurehouse of the "greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere." When the war ended, the great trading empire was shattered. Gone also were four-fifths of the Japanese merchant ships that had carried her trade. Eighty-one million people (increasing at the rate of about one million a year) were bottled up on the overcrowded islands of Japan in a space hardly...
...like that of an aquatic animal. Only his hands and face are darker, the sun having burnt them. His baby shoulders, narrow and round, flow without angles into feminine arms and end in marvelous hands, small and of delicate design ... His huge stomach, drawn tight and smooth as a sphere, rests on strong legs . . . that end in large feet pointing outward in an obtuse angle as if to take in all the earth ... He sleeps in a fetal position and when awake moves with elegant slowness as if he lived in liquid . . . Women . . . would like always to have...
...start, Pravda named nine critics who had made the mistake of criticizing the kind of calendar-art-heavily realistic pictures of Red politicians and soldiers in action-that Soviet bigwigs think uplifting. Some critics, it seemed, had dared to see a little merit in paintings done outside the Russian sphere, which "serve the selfish interests of the bourgeoisie, catering to their decadent and perverted tastes." And a brave or venturesome man named Byeskin had even found fault with a picture by one Yar-Kravchenko entitled Gorky Reads to Comrades Stalin, Molotov and Voroshilov His Story, "Girl and Death", which subsequently...