Word: westernisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist is the man who says "no" and walks out of United Nations meetings. He is the Guerrilla in Greece and the General Striker in Italy. He closes coal mines in France and ... is bringing about the economic creeping paralysis of Berlin's Western zones even while the dramatic airlift is in progress...
...students expect 50 western rooters to show up for the broadcast, at 50 cents a head. The money covers only refreshments, since Tidewater Associated has agreed to pipe the play-by-play across the continent free of charge...
Back in 1936, Mrs. Nieman is reputed to have had the University of Wisconsin in mind for her be quest, but decided on Harvard because of "radical tendencies" in the mid western school. They still blush in the Journal city room when the subject is mentioned...
...churches "home." to Russia. The Turkish government (unofficially Moslem) unofficially indicated that it would be "very, very satisfied" by Athenagoras' election. The only opposition came from those who opposed the election of a non-Turk or who resented the obvious political interest of the Turkish government and the Western nations...
Painted in microscopic detail, often with a single-hair brush, the caravan sparkles and shines against freely sketched crags. As one critic put it, each tiny figure seems carved in jade. But like many a Western master, Ch'iu found little fame while he lived; his work had been too meticulous for the contemporary taste...