Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some Western observers feared that the promise of "One Reich" would lure West German politicians away from the Western camp. But State's Robert Murphy, for one, did not share this fear. Just back from Germany, where he had helped smooth the way for adoption of the Bonn constitution, he said: "I don't think we are going to have a bit of trouble with the Western Germans. They are going to go right ahead...
Termite Level. "They are laughing at you," sniffed the senior Maeterlinck when Maurice's first mystical writings found their way into print. "Some of my acquaintances did not recognize me," recalled Maurice, "while my friends gave me their hands with an air of pity." Bitter and hurt, he left his native land and went to Paris. There he soon found kinder friends, produced the brooding, mystical plays and essays (Les Aveugles, Pelléas et Mélisande, The Life of the Bee) which made his fame worldwide. Critics praised him. He won the Nobel Prize...
...army of hard-hitting salesmen to invade the U.S. Many fine old British industries, such as pottery and cutlery, which do a steady but limited trade with the U.S., often have no sales program; they merely wait for orders. Other enterprises send salesmen abroad who do not know their way around the U.S. market...
Many Britons thought there was another way. A British leather-goods manufacturer, like a Drake of commerce, last week cried to his griping colleagues: "How can we not sell in the States? Remember that vast country has half the world's spending money in its pockets. Go out there, man, and get some...
...Italians, as to most Europeans, soccer is what baseball is to Americans. No team in Italy was more beloved than Turin's Torinos, whose emblem was a charging bull. Bull-like, the Torinos charged their way to the national championship four times, seldom failed to pay off in the totocalcio, the national soccer pool, where 22 million Italian fans each week place their bets. When the Torinos beat Spain's championship team in Madrid last March, a husky Parma worker cried out: "The Italian Republic's first international victory." The papers picked up the phrase and made...