Word: westernisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...place to destroy Communism is in Moscow-not China, Malaya or the Dutch East Indies. Through Western Europe and Germany is the path to Moscow. The present battle for Germany may well begin the battle for Moscow...
Elsewhere, Stalin was little more than holding his own. His Communists suffered electoral defeats in France and Italy; Yugoslavia's strong-willed Tito brashly challenged his absolute authority. The Western Allies moved forward toward setting up an independent Western Germany, and then stayed in Berlin as one gauge of their determination to get on with...
Last week a Western nation won a quick, clean-cut victory in Asia. The Dutch had grasped the nettle. At Jogjakarta, where the square rock still stands, they had seized the top Indonesian Nationalist leaders (TIME, Dec. 27). In ten days after their attack, they had captured every major city of Republican Java...
...River. Howard Hawks's rattling good western, with John Wayne and Montgomery Clift (TIME...
Kline thought the Hope-Aiken Act and its sliding scale of price props were just right. The Middle Western farmers thought so too, helped Kline defeat the Southern proposal and got the federation to go on record in favor of the Hope-Aiken Act. But it also urged Congress to enact a permanent law making any agricultural commodity eligible for price support. No one suggested that the farmers prove they were the free enterprisers they fancied themselves by eventually doing away with all price supports, any more than other businessmen would do away with tariffs...