Word: tides
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From unusually close contact with his fellow natives of Tokyo, Ambassador Reischauer believes that the tide of neutralism is ebbing. "I'm vastly encouraged," he says. "There is a much clearer realization of world realities...
...hemisphere, Constantine Oumansky, a schemer and conniver, took over. Then, in the critical years of World War II, when Russia desperately needed U.S. help, grandfatherly Maxim Litvinov became ambassador. He was pro-Western, cooperative and eager to please-as befitted the envoy of an embattled ally. But as the tide of victory turned, Litvinov was supplanted by the dour Andrei Gromyko, and as the cold war worsened, Gromyko and his successors were progressively frosty...
...unlike Britain and France, stubbornly clung to a hopeless anachronism in refusing to get out of India. By claiming weakly that Goa was not a colony but an "overseas province," Portugal did indeed (as India's U.N. Delegate C. S. Jha put it) stand "against the tide of history...
Despite such heroic countermeasures, The New Yorker failed to stem the tide. In 1955 it counted 698 ''unbelievable statements" in just six months' worth of ads, including 312 "finests," 281 "world's bests," and 47 examples of "other improbable nonsense." "Enough is enough is enough," said the magazine in an appeal to its advertisers. "Don't raise the bridge, boys . . . lower the river." The plea was saucily-and pointedly-signed by "America's First Most Only Magazine in the World." Last week, The New Yorker triumphantly announced that the river level had fallen...
...Muslim doctrine advocates the formation of a separate economy and state for the American black man. And it declares that God has given white supremacy only 23 more years of grace, during which time the white man must implement the black man's demands or go under the rising tide of black supremacy...