Word: paste
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...French politician had to say this, but the U.S. leaders were under no compulsion to let the French hamstring action on Germany as they had in the past. All that the U.S. had to say was that it would not and could not undertake to defend France so long as Germany was defenseless. This week, at long last, Acheson was prepared to be firm. Ernest Bevin was ready to back him. To both of them, the most important item before the Foreign Ministers was how, when and with what Germany would be strengthened to become the bastion of a free...
...German Communist Party, a trusted friend of Lenin, an associate of Stalin. Reuter not only understood the danger, he knew what had to be done to meet it. Said he: "It is not my business to act like a terrified rabbit staring at a snake." For the past four years he had made it his business to rouse in his countrymen the love of freedom that all men have and to urge the free world to let the Germans have the means of defending themselves...
...Berliners did not seem afraid. "We're past fearing," said a taxi driver. "We made up our minds long ago. All we can do is work and wait...
Battered, canny little Willie Pep, one of the shiftiest boxers in ring history and featherweight champion (except for three months) through the past eight years, figured that at the advanced fighting age of 28 he had learned all the tricks of his trade. A fast man on his feet and a fairly sharp puncher, he could also wrestle, gouge and butt with the best of them. Last week, nonetheless, Harlem's 24-year-old Sandy Saddler taught Willie a few new holds...
...illustrate its points, the Vatican had arranged a vast show of 1,400 religious art works produced in the past half century. Most of them were conservative and many were dull, although the exhibition did include a few standout pictures that proved how "understandable" religious art can be without sacrificing freedom or strength of expression. Among them were a powerful close-up of Christ on the cross, drawn by aging French Modern Georges Rouault, and an industrial-age view of Jesus in the Street, by a little-known Italian painter named Francesco Perotti. But the chilly traditionalism of the exhibition...