Word: ups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lord Macaulay's lordly eloquence had carried the day for English against Oriental rivals. He had heaped scorn on India's backward tongues-they taught "medical doctrines which would disgrace an English farrier, astronomy which would move laughter in girls at an English boarding school, history abounding with...
"We are on the threshold of a linguistic revolution," he said. "There is such a thing as having roots in the past and growing up into the sky above and not looking down on the soil ... A handful of British dominated us for so long. Why? Because they represented a...
Gleaming limousines last week drove up to a former concert hall in the Rhine resort of Bad Godesberg, a few minutes away from the new German capital at Bonn. Diplomats of 33 nations and the leading officials of Western Germany had come to pay their respects to Theodor Heuss (rhymes...
Heuss's wife became a successful advertising woman, was able to support them when the Nazis froze Heuss out of teaching jobs. Now, grey-haired and grandmotherly, she will have to be the mistress of the ugly, boxlike presidential mansion at Bad Godesberg. Said Heuss of this German White...
Herr Heuss's first official act as President of Germany was to nominate Konrad Adenauer, leader of the largest (Christian Democratic) party, as Chancellor. When ratification came up for vote in the Bundestag, Adenauer squeaked through by one vote-he needed 202 of the 402 votes, and he got...