Word: western
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Hitler opposed a world untouched by a major war for 20 years. The Allies were economically strong but militarily weak. Today, Stalin opposes a world ravaged by the most destructive war in history. The "Western Union" is at present both economically and militarily weak...
...thousand years ago, when Western civilization was bounded by the laws and legions of the Roman Empire, the proudest words a man could utter were: "I am a citizen of Rome." A century ago, when the world was girdled by the British Empire, the Englishman's voice sounded from the earth's far corners: "I am a British subject." Now, in the middle of the 20th Century, the most arresting tones of history said something else: "I am an American...
...Raised no objection when the Federal Housing Administrator appointed his younger brother, J. Vivian Truman, 62, to a $7,100 job as district FHA director for western Missouri...
Halfway House? Nevertheless, last week the urge toward European federation-or consolidation, or "Western Union," or whatever men might call the first steps toward a United States of Europe-was more vigorous than at any time since Napoleon's dream of unity-by-conquest crashed at Waterloo. Jean Boewet, looking out over Waterloo's rippling wheat, might well be skeptical. What could the statesmen show him besides the skeletons...
...London, delegates to a six-power conference (the Brussels-pact nations and the U.S.) discussed a government for Western Germany...