Word: western
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...constitution is to be approved this week by the military governors of the three Western zones. After that the legislatures of the eleven West German states will have to ratify it, the German people hold elections to choose a parliament. Target date for the "Federal Republic of Germany" to set up shop: July...
Patched with many a dubious compromise, Western Germany's new constitution had yet to prove itself; it was, nevertheless, a milestone on Germany's tortuous road to democracy...
...latest Sky and Telescope magazine described a great meteor crater recently identified at Wolf Creek in the dry wilderness 400 miles inland from Broome, Western Australia. From ground level the crater is not impressive. Its rim looks like a low, rocky ridge above a featureless plain. Apparently the few who have passed near it hardly ever gave it a second glance...
Present-day Western civilization, says Sir Heneage, has made it hard to make proper use of the mind. Man was better off in the Middle Ages, when he had a better chance of 1) a job that demanded individual skill, 2) some security, and 3) a sense of doing something useful in the community. Modern man has been straining so long after success, often doing a job he dislikes, that the strain has become second nature. Men of today, says Ogilvie, "are so constantly keyed up to fight the world that is trying to tread them down that they...
...only story in the book that fails to come off, this one becomes a maudlin sermon, with the fuzzy moral that the Westerner should be on the side of the natives-whatever that is. Thus, better than any of the others, it makes plain what kind of blinkers Robert Shaplen's characters seem to wear. They are quite upset about what the Western impact may have done or failed to do to Asia but their reactions are impractical and confused and in some cases defy analysis. If Asia itself has anything to worry about after the Western rascals...