Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Friedman attributed the Western superiority in the downhill and cross-country competition to the "lure of the Rockies...
...coffers of Swiss banks. The influx of gold became so bulging, in fact, that one Swiss bank had to reinforce the walls of its vault to contain it. It was all part of the largest gold rush in his tory, a frenetic, speculative stampede that last week threatened the Western world with its greatest financial crisis since the Depression...
...threat seemed limited, consider ing that the N.D.P. has only 28,000 members out of Germany's 60 million people and that the Western Allies have little love for the party. Still, it was a breach that could be widened-and who could tell how broad East Germany's definition of a neo-Nazi could grow? The East Germans apparently have the N.D.P. list of members in Berlin and West Germany and insist that they will not let them pass border checkpoints. The U.S., France and Britain immediately declared that, under Allied agreements, everyone has the right...
...Thailand's Democrat Party and three times Premier; of cancer; in Bangkok. After joining with Pridi Phano-myong in the 1932 coup d'état that established a constitutional monarchy, Khuang championed economic reforms and, as Premier during the turbulent years from 1944 to 1948, urged pro-Western policies before he himself was overthrown by a military coup...
...political terms, the most significant fact about Wisconsin is its ethnic structure and background. Unlike most other Western states, Wisconsin was settled by immigrants who came directly from continental Europe. Despite some emigration from New England in the Jacksonian era, most of the first settlers were refugees of the political upheavals of Europe in 1948 and thereafter. Wisconsin's population grew from...