Word: west
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact seemed to be that the Kremlin badly wanted a settlement. The airlift had defeated the Russian blockade, costing the Russians dear in prestige and popularity. It had transported 1,540,969 tons in 310 days, steadily upped its totals in spite of the German winter. Meanwhile the West's counter-blockade had pinched Eastern Germany badly. With the Communists' gigantic triumphs in Asia, they could afford a strategic retreat in Europe without disastrous loss of face...
Safeguard. But the West had learned to give Soviet offers a wary welcome. After months of hard negotiations, a government for Western Germany was nearly a reality. Secretary of State Dean Acheson made it clear that the U.S. would not allow the Russians to talk Western Germany to death by delays; nor would it permit any German government to be hamstrung by re-establishment of a Russian veto. "The people of Western Germany may rest assured," said Acheson, "that this Government will agree to no general solution for Germany into which the basic safeguards and benefits of the existing Western...
Through that country, a link between East and West, Warne says we can work out a long period of good will and trade between the nations of the world, not individually, but on "total patterns...
From Winthrop House the four visitors and Reed proceeded to the Mayflower Skeet Club in Holliston (25 miles west of Cambridge) for their weekly practice stint of knocking the clay out of clay pigeons. At the Club, they were joined by Coach Dick Shaughnessey, "Mr. Skeet", as he is known in American skeet circles...
Another tradition, although less spectacular, has also fallen out of use. The Ivy Oration, beginning in 1865, was performed over a box full of class mementos which was buried solemnly against the west wall of old Gore Hall (where Widener now stands): Ivy was ceremoniously planted over the box, but when all the plants died in 1876, this custom came to an end. The Ivy Orator, of course, has survived, but the Oration that began as a sober dedication later changed to a humorous speech. Two of the more famous Orators have been George Lyman Kittredge '82 and Robert Benchley...