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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
Noam Chomsky
World
Hatred
Perception
President
Harsh
Arab
Arab World
About
Take
He
1950s
Supported
Concerned
Because
Oppressive
Campaign
Oil
Eisenhower
Regimes
Even
Street
I play a replica of a banjo from the 1950s. It was the first commercial-style banjo in the United States so it's the first one that white people played.
Rhiannon Giddens
People
First
White
States
1950s
First One
Replica
Banjo
United
United States
Play
Played
Obama remains frozen in his father's time machine. His anti-colonialism is the anti-colonialism of Africa in the 1950s: state confiscation of land, confiscatory taxation, and so on. My anti-colonialism is the anti-colonialism of India in the 21st century.
Dinesh D'Souza
Time
Father
State
Machine
21st Century
Obama
India
Remains
1950s
His
Africa
Frozen
Confiscation
Taxation
Land
Century
Disney's House of the Future had the clean simplicity prized in the 1950s as relief from decades of frayed patchwork, jury-rigging, and make-do clutter caused by Depression and war.
P. J. O'Rourke
Depression
War
Future
Simplicity
Relief
Clean
Had
1950s
House
Caused
Prized
Decades
Clutter
Disney
In many places around the world, including Turkey until the 1950s, Muslims didn't have full freedom of religion. Even personal practice was not allowed, and they had to practice in secret.
Fethullah Gulen
Freedom
Religion
World
Practice
Secret
Muslims
Had
Allowed
1950s
Freedom Of Religion
Until
Around
Personal
Places
Turkey
Full
Many
Even
Including