Word: tides
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rebellion, Gbenye himself turned up in Uganda with the rulers of three East African republics in tow. Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta, Uganda's Apollo Milton Obote and Tanzania's Julius Nyerere seemed genuinely thrilled to help the Congolese "hero," and Western diplomats sensed a rising tide of anti-Americanism growing from the meeting...
Kenneth Noland, 40, who studied with Abstractionists Ilya Bolotowsky and Josef Albers at Black Mountain College, produces work that is harder edged, but his thinly applied geometries was not immediately popular. Noland's first two one-man shows, in 1956 and 1957, went untouched. But by 1959 the tide had changed. In the past year, five major museums have bought his canvases, and today he commands prices averaging...
There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood in 1964, led on to fame for Lyndon Baines Johnson...
...leadership in the Soviet Union, West Germany, Britain, India and Italy indicates a world in flux, full of new problems-but also new opportunities for accommodation. Aware that events may not always be to the U.S.'s liking in such a world, he counsels patience and prudence. The tide, he feels, is running in favor of the West in its competition with Communism. He has faith that world leaders, too, can learn to reason together...
Stuffed with Shredded Paper. Many of the details are unfamiliar and fascinating. Strategically, for example, Werth rates the Battle of Kursk (north of Kharkov), in July 1943, as "Hitler's last chance to turn the tide," and thus as important as Stalingrad the previous year. Werth is at his best in eyewitness accounts of Leningrad or of his tour (in -40° C. weather) through the Stalingrad area just after the mop-up there. The item about Russian children using the stiffly frozen body of a German soldier as a sled makes a one-sentence summary of the horror...