Word: unis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When the water of the Valle Pega had been drained away, the official archaeologists attacked the newfound diggings. It was a sloppy job, but by using pumps and sheet-metal cofferdams, they reached the deep tombs that the Comacchiesi had missed. Guided by Professor Paolo Enrico Arias of the Uni versity of Catania (who wears a beret and looks, except for his red rubber boots, like a movie director of the Keystone Cop period), the laborers extracted a stream of beautiful things dating from the time when Rome was young. One tomb contained the skeleton of a young Etruscan woman...
...announced that Germany would be rearmed. The French, who had different views on this matter, found themselves faced with a virtual fait accompli, and proposed a unified force (the beginnings of E.D.C.) as a compromise instead of a German army. The Korean War also illustrated the possible consequences of uni-lateral action. The situation that developed when General MacArthur wanted to bomb Manchuria resulted from U.S. failure to consult with the other U.N. powers. Britain felt that MacArthur was in complete control and was steering toward a major...
...Look," shows that if any system of collective security is to be effective, there must be complete multi-lateral co-operation. The United States now finds itself the initiator of most Western policy; yet Europe would probably suffer first in the event of war. For this reason, uni-lateral decisions by the U.S. can lead only to dis-unity...
...simple method: he is benevolent to his big boys in their big business (a necessary evil, he thinks), uses much of the national revenue in the maintenance of the elements of the system's machinery-the army, the state police, censorship, the Catholic Church, the corporative agencies, the União National (Government's Party) and the propaganda bureaus. With a few hundred thousand collaborationists, dependent on the regime, he keeps the other part of the people impotent. But this is his "victory": in exchange for fiscal stability, the Portuguese people have lost much of their vitality...
...grossing movies last month, according to a Variety survey of 25 key U.S. cities: 1) The African Queen (United Artists) 2) The Marrying Kind (Columbia) 3) Red Ball Express - see below (Uni versal-International) 4) Belles on Their Toes (soth Century-Fox) 5) Singin' in the Rain...