Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...swirling Congo, this charge was hard to prove or disprove. But the Belgians did seem to be stalling on their promise to evacuate their troops from the last big airbases they controlled, including the spacious, well-equipped Kamina strip in Katanga. Hammarskjold fired off a stiff note to Brussels, virtually accusing the Belgians of lying in assuring him that all their soldiers had left when, in fact, he charged, 600 remained. Belgium called this figure "exaggerated," replied tartly that insufficient U.N. transport planes had been provided...
...above all a supreme draftsman whose impeccable lines and fragrant colors could bubble with humor or sing with sadness. A drunkard tipsily shows off his strength by weight-lifting a barrel; two men get happily looped on a sake binge; a maiden frowns over a sour note she has struck while tuning her samisen; a ragged little urchin sits perched in a tree while majestic Mount Fuji soars incongruously in the distance. Under Hokusai's brush, Japan emerges as more than a floating land of stylized ritual: he had learned the secret he did not expect to know until...
...having broken the Japanese "purple"' code, the U.S. knew of Japanese peace feelers to Switzerland, Sweden and Russia. At mid-month, when the Allied Big Three assembled in Berlin's satellite city of Potsdam, Stalin solicited Truman's advice about how to answer a peace-seeking note from Tokyo. Their conversation was recorded by U.S. Translator Charles Bohlen (now Special Assistant to Secretary of State Christian Herter), who took down sketchy notes, expanded upon them just last spring. "Stalin inquired of the President whether it was worthwhile to answer this communication," wrote Bohlen. "The President replied that...
...young people from the lower echelons of Catholic organizations are to make contact with visitors of all nationalities . . . and subject them to an intensive anti-Communist workout, while praising Catholicism and the Western way of life." Pope John himself, fretted the Communists, might be watching TV to take note of any Iron Curtain athlete who crossed himself before competing...
...nation seesawed between war and peace, Republicans and Democrats. Most tourists think she is an Indian, possibly Pocahontas or Chief Sitting Bull. She has also been accused of being Joan of Arc, Carry Nation, and Balboa discovering the Pacific. But most of those who bother to take note of her at all are almost sure to ask the question: "Why is that Indian wearing those Roman robes...