Word: western
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...veto power. It laid down the legal basis for U.S. plans to organize collective security within that framework. These called for development of regional arrangements for collective self-defense under Article 51, and the "association" of the U.S. with such groupings. Vandenberg obviously had in mind Europe's Western Union...
...happened that these Russians failed to get general recognition all these years while Western impostors usurped their glory? Moscow had the answer for that, too. It was the fault of the czarist iron curtain, which repressed science and free thought...
...last March 20 (TIME, March 29). Until this week, however, they still met in the lower-echelon Kommandatura, charged with the day-to-day business of running the capital. Here, each fortnight, white-haired Soviet General Alexander Kotikov rose to read an hour-long prepared indictment of the Western powers, then comfortably settled his 215 pounds in his chair and looked blank and bland while U.S. Representative Colonel Frank Howley crisply replied. Then Kotikov would read another rehearsed document on a totally different subject...
...bits, was wounded and captured by the Germans. Clad in a pair of blue pajamas, boots and a white panama he had stolen from a Greek plumber, Farran escaped, drifted on a caique for nine days until a British destroyer picked him up. He got back to the Western desert in time for El Alamein. One day he drove a brigadier in a staff car when the car suddenly skidded and turned over. The brigadier was killed. Said Farran, who was unscathed: "I contemplated suicide...
...organized in its present pattern -a nonprofit cooperative-until 1892. The organizers were members of the "Western A.P.," a rebel group that had broken away from the monopolistic New York...