Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lengthy report to the Yugoslav Parliament, Foreign Minister Edvard Kardelj last week boasted: "Relations with the United States, Great Britain and France have been improved . . . The U.S.S.R. has said that no country can exist unless it is under the thumb of a hegemonistic power . . . We have proved it can . . . While dogs bark, the caravan passes...
...more than a century, kings, governments and hotelkeepers did their best to live up to Mr. Baedeker; so did millions of tourists who followed the famed little red books to far corners of the earth, trying to keep their eyes at once on the great sights and on the small grey type. Last week, after a blackout of more than a decade, a brand-new Baedeker (on the West German Land Schleswig-Holstein) was again in the hands of travelers. Many a king and government had since become tourists in oblivion, but Mr. Baedeker was back in business...
...Indonesian workmen removed the heavy, gilt-framed portraits of the imperial Dutchmen whose hardheaded commercial dealings had founded the empire. (Their pictures would soon be replaced by Soekarno's favorite paintings of Indonesian national heroes.) The old pictures sat unceremoniously on the floor: bewigged Johannes Camphuys (1684-91), great governor and great gardener, whose followers introduced coffee-growing to Java; Herman Willem Daendels (1808-11), governor general and dictatorial reformer; Johannes van den Bosch (1830-33), governor general, paternalist exponent of a forced-labor system. The workmen loaded the pictures of the past into a truck to begin their...
...people in the U.S. are born, live and die under the care of a general practitioner, their family doctor. In country districts the proportion is far higher. There, the relationship between the ailing and their doctors has not changed much since homesteading days. But there has been a great change in country doctors themselves...
...Some great writers, says Dr. Brain, were insane in the strict sense "that they would today have been regarded as certifiable." Others, although not certifiable, were manic-depressives, obsessionals, alcoholics or drug addicts. Among mentally sick writers of all nations he includes Baudelaire, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Goethe, Poe, Rousseau and Strindberg. Some Brain case histories and diagnoses of fellow Englishmen...