Word: west
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...many of our subscribers in China, a change of address is now out of the question and communications like the following have been coming to us: "Unfortunately, the Communists are approaching my native city (Wuchang), and an iron curtain will soon be tightly drawn between us and the West. American publications, especially, will be prohibited . . . For the sake of my safety, please stop corresponding with your humble reader...
Three years after his historic speech at Fulton, Mo., in which he warned the West to rally before Communist aggression, Winston Churchill spoke again in what he called his "motherland." At Boston Garden, under the merciless lights required by the soth Century triumph of television, he reiterated his warnings and expressed new hope. From a vantage point no other man can claim to occupy, he reviewed the half-century on which he left his giant's imprint. He called it "this terrible soth Century...
...because they fear the friendship of the West more than its hostility. They cannot afford to allow free and friendly intercourse to grow up between the vast areas they control and the civilizations of the West...
...They're killing the golden goose," growled an old U.S. visitor. "It costs us 150% more to live here than at home." A warning came from H. J. ("Jack") Tucker, manager of the Bank of Bermuda: "Tourists don't need to come here." Some Bermudians had bought West Indies real estate to the south, with a view to clearing out before the bust. But for the time being, with more & more tourists ready to pay fancy prices, the Bermuda boom...
...temporary chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General of the Army Dwight Eisenhower came down with a "severe case of acute gastro-enteritis," had to cancel all dates. After a week in bed, he was able to get out of town for "a complete rest" in Key West...