Word: western
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...isolationist" arose over debate on the Administration's $1,450,000,000 military-aid program. Gathered around South Carolina's Democrat James P. Richards and Ohio's Republican John M. Vorys, a powerful coalition set out to slice the Administration's two-year plan for Western Europe in half. "If you want a two-year program," said Richards, "let's allow for the first year and then come back and take a look...
With an air of pained surprise, northern and western soft-coal operators fired crusty, aging Ezra Van Horn, an executive of the Ohio Coal Association, from his six-year-old job as the operators' chief labor negotiator. They also tied a new demand to the contract they are negotiating with John L. Lewis. If Van Horn was not relieved of his trustee's job, they would not sign a new contract with the union...
Bramuglia, the son of poor Italian immigrants, is a quiet, complex man of unquestioned integrity. As Foreign Minister, he led his country away from its stubborn opposition to the U.S. in hemispheric councils. At the U.N. he made a flashy try at reconciling the Western powers and Russia on the Berlin blockade. But at home, on la Señora's orders, he was rewarded with a campaign of insulting silence in the Peronista press and on the radio (TIME...
...eyes that finally see through Max to his sad and waif-like soul are the sleepy eyes of Mrs. Morgan's 18-year-old son Jimmy. An epileptic and a problem child who refuses to believe anything his tutors tell him about basic trends or the continuity of Western culture, Jimmy wears his mother down until she opens the nursery door, lets him go along with Divver on a trip to the Polish Corridor in the summer...
...mistress' closet listening to the husband's unexpected return, then as he flees naked down the hotel corridor, clutching his evening shoes and dinner coat, he remembers Casanova and realizes in a flash that this is what his tutors were talking about -the continuity of Western culture...