Word: westernness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Source of Pride. He spoke with the authority of a man who has not let his own dealings with Russia dim his basic Western sympathies. And he obviously has an admirer in Lyndon Johnson. "When I visited Iran just five years ago," the President noted last week at a White House dinner for his guest, "Iran's land reform program had barely begun. Today, 50% of Iran's rural families farm their own land. Some 7,000 rural cooperatives have been established and 800 extension corpsmen are helping farmers acquire new skills." It is no accident that Iran...
...been with their guns, the commanders of Major General Yakubu Gowon's federal army of Nigeria shrugged off the recent loss of their country's Midwestern Region. The unexpected victory of the rebel Biafrans from the east was only "a temporary setback." When the Biafrans penetrated the Western Region as far as the crossroads town of Ore last week, Gowon's spokesmen called it "the last desperate move of the rebels before their total collapse...
...Roman Catholic priest has declared that "never again should a major report on education be done separately by the World Council and the Roman Catholic Church." Catholics and Protestants will be facing each other across conference tables repeatedly over the coming months, including a session with Marxist theoreticians in Western Europe next Spring to mull over common social concerns...
...president of Pacific Air Lines. Henry's arithmetic stems from the profits he anticipates from a merger of Pacific and two other regional, or feeder, airlines: Phoenix's Bonanza and Seattle's West Coast. The system, after approval by stockholders and the CAB, will cover eight Western states...
...Apple juice is good for you," proclaims a billboard in Budapest. "Capture time, take photographs," urges a TV commercial in Prague. "Fly by airplane," reads a Soviet poster. Rudimentary as they are by Western standards, such ads are sign and symbol that the men in the grey flannel öltöny have found a place in increasingly consumer-minded Eastern Europe...