Word: westernisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...healthy side, Acheson had helped polish the final draft of the North Atlantic pact. It now pledged the U.S. to defend Western Europe with armed force, if necessary-reserving to the U.S. the right to determine when such action was "necessary." Acheson felt that this compromise was forthright enough to reassure Western Europeans, while worded properly to reassure Senators, who didn't want to surrender their Constitutional right to declare war. Norway was all set to climb aboard. Even Denmark's Foreign Minister Gustav Rasmussen, who thought the U.S. was trying to hustle him through the gate, indicated...
...Recent weeks have shown that Frenchmen can be lulled into thinking that, after all, there might be no disagreeable problem to solve. The drama of the French Communists, pointed up by the week's events, is this: that Western firmness compels Moscow to compel the French Reds to show their true colors. Strangely tragic -but not pitiable-figures, the French Communists are thereby forced to encompass their own destruction...
...served with mountain infantry in World War II. In 1947, Lieut. Hackett joined a scientific expedition that scaled Alaska's Mt. McKinley. Last month 30-year-old Bill Hackett got a 45-day leave from his post at Fort Benning, Ga., and set his sights for Aconcagua, the Western Hemisphere's highest peak...
...strike" by western cattlemen to keep their beef from market...
...press coop, Western Union operators bent low to hear the chatter of their instruments above the din. In St. Louis' jammed Kiel Auditorium last week, one of the noisiest collections of bells-cowbells, sleighbells, dinner bells-ever assembled under one roof was ringing the rafters. St. Louis rooters were doing their tintinnabulary best to help St. Louis University's basketball team (ranked No. 2 in the nation) to get revenge against arch-rival Oklahoma A. & M. (ranked...