Word: western
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hour later in Cincinnati, to say Hey, it ain't so. Worse, although the 14 others expelled from baseball over the years never again set foot on a major league diamond, Rose insisted he would be back, perhaps as early as next year. A blue-collar guy from western Cincinnati who played baseball with the enthusiasm of a seven-year-old on the field -- and exhibited the same level of maturity off -- Rose may actually believe...
...Mikhail Gorbachev. "What we may be witnessing," he writes, "is not just the end of the cold war, or the passing of a particular period of postwar history, but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government...
Fukuyama, who considers Hegel an unjustly neglected thinker, argues that those ideals, as embodied in liberal democracy, have outlasted two principal 20th century competitors for the hearts and minds of Western men. "Fascism was destroyed as a living ideology by World War II," Fukuyama writes. As for Marxism-Leninism, he notes that "while there may be some isolated true believers left in places like Managua, Pyongyang or Cambridge," no large state that espouses it as an ideology even pretends to be in the vanguard of history. Witness, as evidence, the glasnost-inspired admissions of economic failure and bureaucratic bungling that...
...capturing the industrial and agricultural resources of the Ukraine, and it was not until October that he began a new drive on the capital. And the Soviets proved tougher than expected. The Germans originally estimated Soviet strength at about 200 divisions; Moscow eventually fielded nearly 400 on the Western front -- roughly 6 million...
...strongly opposed U.S. involvement in the war. The U.S. did appropriate $13 billion in Lend-Lease aid to Britain in 1941, but when Churchill asked for 50 obsolete World War I destroyers to replace those lost in the Battle of Britain, he had to sign over Western Hemisphere bases in exchange. Besides, the U.S. was embarrassingly weak, boasting an Army of barely three divisions and an Air Force with just over 300 fighters...