Word: western
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clear-Cut Corner. It is an arena in which new gladiators arrive daily to risk ulcers, anxiety, tension, loneliness, bruised shins or the awful rebuff of failure in a quest for excitement, gold or glory. It is the Big Bonanza of the western world. Wrote an anonymous poet...
...great cousins of the Western world, on whose solidarity that world's future so heavily depended, were divided by an issue which seemed to possess an almost infinite capacity for generating bitterness-Palestine...
...north, army officers figure that for every degree the temperature drops below zero, a soldier's effectiveness goes down about 2%. Near 50 below, all his energy is used just to stay alive. But if the Western Hemisphere ever has to defend itself against an attack launched over the Pole, Western man must learn (as his enemy will presumably have learned) how to survive in Arctic weather, and still have energy left to fight. How to acquire that skill is the problem before the Joint U.S.Canadian Cold Weather Testing Station at Churchill...
Eugene O'Neill found his Mourning Becomes Electra still a live issue after 17 years: the city fathers of Leipzig (in the Russian zone) closed it because it was "reactionary . . . Western decadence...
...found few other takers for its share of reparations, small though it is (8.9% of what is taken out of Western Germany). Most U.S. businessmen do not think they are worth buying. Much of the equipment is worn out. Though the German plants are cheap, U.S. buyers must pay the high transportation costs to the U.S. Three companies submitted bids for the aluminum plant and Kaiser got it for only $203,000. The cost of moving it was another $100,000. Before the plant is producing, Kaiser will have spent an estimated $1,000,000. But Kaiser, who would have...