Word: african
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aggression. This is a difficult borderline doctrine. Another problem is to strike the essential balance in channelling European economy between recovery and rearment. A major purpose of the Pact is to relieve small nations of overburdening war expenditure. It would be disastrous if Pact Mutual defeat plans induced an african spirt which overshadowed recovery...
...According to legend. Dido, daughter of the Tyrian King Mutton and founder of Carthage, committed suicide rather than marry an importunate African chief. Virgil shuffled because Wanter Aeneas was leaving...
Havenga had not always flouted the rules. A tough veteran of the Boer War, he became Finance Minister in 1924, and budgeted so conservatively in the next 15 years that he became known as the "Minister of Surpluses." When war came in 1939, he plumped for South African neutrality, split with Prime Minister Smuts, and two years later disappeared into the political wilderness. Last spring he allied his Afrikaaner Party with the race-conscious Nationalist Party (TIME, June 7) and rode back into power when Smuts went...
...from Jane Alley. From the place Louis and jazz were born, there was no direction to move but up. The music, at first a restless, syncopated blend of African dance rhythms, Negro blues, brass-band marches, and French Creole songs and dances, spent its raucous teens in brothels, cheap saloons and street parades. Armstrong came up from Jane Alley, a squalid, "back-o'-town" lane in what was then the toughest section of uptown Negro New Orleans. His parents were the nearly illiterate grandchildren of slaves, his father a worker in a turpentine factory, his mother a domestic. Never...
...Hint of an Explanation and deals briefly with the same theological theme as The Heart of the Matter. Besides these, there is a fragment of a novel written in 1936 (he gave it up, wisely, to write Brighton Rock), in which the author intended to use the West African locale later picked as the scene of The Heart of the Matter...