Sentences with phrase «cold war years»

I freely admit that I gently borrowed the title from French professor Serge Guilbaut, whose book How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art: Abstract Expressionism, Freedom, and the Cold War, written back in 1983, is still by far one of the most fascinating books about abstract expressionism and its controversial use as propaganda in the Cold War years.

In the Cold War years de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, as the most famous abstract expressionists, came to symbolise freedom itself.

The work presented in «COLD war COOL digital» is of significance as approximately 190 million apartments were built using pre-fabricated concrete panel building systems during the Cold War years.

Her parents were social historians, both writers, and both very active in the peace and anti-nuclear movements during the cold war years.

Based on the classic novel of the same name, the international thriller is set at the height of the Cold War years of the mid-20th Century.

Also chilling are the Soviet Union's vivid indictments of the US civil rights record during the Cold War years — the Statue of Liberty looms as a police watchtower (see below).

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This has not gone unnoticed by NATO officials, who have warned several times in recent years that Russian sub activity was becoming more sophisticated and reaching levels not seen since the Cold War.

As bad as things get, there's one place in Moscow that reminds Russians that things could be a whole lot worse: the city's Cold War Museum, which opened a few years ago in a converted bunker.

The bunker was decommissioned after 30 years, and in 2006, it was turned into a space that functions as a Cold War museum, karaoke bar, restaurant, wedding venue, and conference space under the same name.

As the country prepares to be led for the first time in almost 60 years by someone not named Castro, a tectonic shift that could profoundly affect how it is governed, cold war rhetoric has again filled the air.

Cuba was formally removed from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism late last month, a critical step toward rapprochement 54 years after Washington cut off relations at the height of the Cold War and imposed an economic embargo.

Still, so far, the global trade war is a cold one, and the OECD says most investment measures introduced by governments last year support open markets.

When the histories of Cold War 2.0 are written, the attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal on March 4 of this year will appear as a turning point.

The Cold War is Over by Peter Hitchens To Russia, With Love My Soviet Years The Comforting, Imaginary Menace

2) The notion of the U.S. as a «Christian Country» is revisionist history that started during the Cold War (when, for example, «under God» was inserted into the Pledge of Allegiance, where for sixty years prior it had been absent) and continues today with people like Rick Santorum «wanting to vomit» at the notion of a secular nation.

Evangelicals who are «Pro-Israel, Pro-Palestine» are reminiscent of similarly well intentioned and naive church activists of thirty years ago who eagerly advocated peaceful accommodation and disarmament during the Cold War.

During oversight debate earlier this year, former CIA head John McCone urged that the cold - war consensus be rebuilt.

Remembering with pleasure our meeting in Washington some years ago, I am prompted to write by what I once hoped was a common concern for the unity of Christ's Church and a shared commitment to bridging the chasm that opened between America and Russia during the Cold War.

A thirty year Cold War set in.

The story runs through Woodrow Wilson's expansive mission to «make the world safe for democracy,» Eisenhower's World War II «crusade in Europe,» and the long years of cold war struggle against «godless communism.&raqWar II «crusade in Europe,» and the long years of cold war struggle against «godless communism.&raqwar struggle against «godless communism.»

Like Tocqueville, he acknowledged that in many ways America was exceptional and that, marshaled to extraordinary power, our ideals had done and could do much good in the world; hence his criticism of Christian pacifism in the 1930s and defense of the Cold War in its early years.

In recent years the Cold War has ended, a «new world order» with a distinct swing toward democracy has begun to emerge, and human rights has assumed ever greater importance on the international scene.

My problem is the kneejerk hatred of American power which won two world wars and the cold war and the fact that we yes WE protected Europe for years and still without our military presence many of the countries of Europe (who by the way will not arm and participate) would be overrun first by the USSR and later by Islamofascists.

The two world wars, the Great Depression, and the more than forty years of Cold War are all in the past.

American troops are stationed in 75 countries; each branch of the armed services has its own air force; and in the next year we may learn if the U.S. can pull off what it has been preparing to do since the end of the cold war: fight two regional wars at the same time.

Those whose needs in this direction are strong often have hot or cold wars lasting for days, months, or even years.

A British woman won Wimbledon, the Queen was celebrating 25 years on the throne but mainly, nominally, the West was still at (Cold) war with the East.

The space between rituals is a cold and confusing place, and Infinity War is leaving us in that place over a year before telling us if it's possible to move forward.

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In recent years, as scholars have explored Ronald Reagan's foreign policy with greater access to primary - source documents, something utterly baffling to the conventional wisdom of his time (and ours) has come into focus: Reagan, determined to win the Cold War, was also eager to rid the world of nuclear weapons.

It is not something that has come about only in the last few years, for examples, as if it came about only after the «end» of the so - called «Cold War», or the so - called «collapse» of the Soviet Union and the other Eastern European socialist societies.

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Had I come of age during the great crisis of 1914 — 1945, or even during the tense, early decades of the Cold War, it's likely I, too, would have sought to defuse the consolidated energies of sovereign peoples, which is what the founders of what became the European Union did in the years after the wWar, it's likely I, too, would have sought to defuse the consolidated energies of sovereign peoples, which is what the founders of what became the European Union did in the years after the warwar.

Here is an amazing article about 122 years old starter nurtured by generations in Lucille's family: «It has lived through the turns of two centuries, the Great Depression, World War I, World War II, the Cold War, Korea, Vietnam and beyond, blues, jazz, rock»n' roll and 23 U.S. presidencies....

In» 83, in retirement, Connolly shed some light on track and field competition in the Cold War era, admitting that he had competed on steroids for a number of years and supporting acceptance of their use, a stance that he would later reverse.

In my view it was this cataclysmic experience by the peoples of the USSR which informs the history, especially the Cold War period, of the last 70 years.

This peaked around ten years later, and has since declined again, but not as rapidly as it did after the Cold War.

Seventy years ago in 1946, Churchill proposed a new phase in this relationship — to win a Cold War that many had not even realised had started.

For the last six years, mainline Democrats and the Independent Democratic Conference in the state Senate have with varying degrees of intensity waged a cold war for power in Albany.

[3] Some recent evidence supports this proposition — the number of civil wars active in a given year has declined significantly since the end of the Cold War.

At various stages over the last one hundred years they have struggled to retain their individual identities — some people have argued for the sake of economy and rationalisation that both services should be combined — and to remain relevant as threats have declined and emerged — the end of the Cold War and the rise of international terrorism.

«It is a very expensive weapon system which was developed in the Cold War to meet the conditions of the Cold War which ended 17 years ago, and it is still capable of functioning fully for about another 15 years from now,» Mr Clarke said.

For the first time in more than five years, you get a chance to see some cold war history in Romulus, Seneca County.

No. 18 - 1, makes permanent a 15 % exemption on certain qualifying real property for Cold War veterans as long as the veteran owns it; this is a change from the previous version of the law that allowed the exemption to stand for 10 years from the date of property purchase.

The first proposed law was an amendment to Article XV11, which would indefinitely extend an already existing property tax deduction for Cold War - era veterans, which was set to expire this year.

The interview, which is already on the magazine's website, also covered the cold war between Malami and the Acting EFCC Chairman, Ibrahim Magu; the allegations of incompetence in the Ministry of Justice; and the midnight raid on the homes on judges last year.

Yet the Cold War had been over for nearly five years, and we were on good terms with Boris Yeltsin, when the SIS hired Colonel Skripal of the Russian GRU (Main Military Intelligence Directorate).

In «Missile Gap», the surface of an alternate Earth still trapped in the cold war has been peeled off and stretched across a vast disc a million years in the future.

It has been more than 60 years since the U.S. dropped two terrible bombs on Japan and more than 15 years since the cold war between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union ended, and government commitment to avoiding nuclear war may be fading.

Sure, politically the world feels edgier than it did a year ago, and certainly scarier than at the end of the cold war and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.