| 单词 | prewar |
| 例句 | “Lets allow my house staff to tidy up in here. Gentlemen, I invite you to join me for cigars and brandy—prewar, of course.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Sunlight streams through large dirty windows into the shabby prewar apartment. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The stage was set for one of the most important events of the prewar period. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Soon there were more and more people looking for space as Jews returned to the city to search for their families and try to reclaim their homes and their prewar lives. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z She was making enough for the family to move into a four-bedroom apartment in a prewar building overlooking Lake Michigan. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Is there anyplace as comforting as an old, institutional, prewar bathroom? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z For Mother’s birthday, she received a real mocha cake, prewar quality, from the office. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z She served him small, steaming cups of precious prewar sake a cousin had brought along and opened for this celebration. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z In mid-July the Soviet Red Army had reached the prewar Polish border. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z I wore it everywhere, emulating in my own way my father's prewar flair for style. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z The elevator was prewar, with gilded, curving bars like a birdcage. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z This had been a difficult task, for they all suffered brain drains as their leading scientists returned to prewar academic posts or accepted jobs stem ming from their newfound eminence. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z We could have been entering our prewar lives. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z It was almost time for her shift at the bar to begin, but she took the train uptown anyway, and found herself outside a redbrick prewar building with a black awning and a doorman. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The cleaning lady is working downstairs, so at the moment I’m seated at the van Daans’ oilcloth-covered table with a handkerchief sprinkled with fragrant prewar perfume pressed to my nose and mouth. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z In being man-made — by ingenious laboratory manipulation of the molecules, substituting atoms, altering their arrangement — they differ sharply from the simpler insecticides of prewar days. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It was the only lab to boast a prewar history and, of course, the only one with a preexisting management. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z At the end of the war, of Kraków's prewar Jewish population of about 60,000, only a few thousand remained. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z In the face of this bleak situation, American policymakers concluded that the key to restoring the prewar European standard of living was restarting the German economy. Why American Pragmatists Saved Postwar Europe 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z His movie career never regained its prewar eminence. Legendary film and TV star Mickey Rooney dead at 93 2014-04-07T05:38:50Z But this version of Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba, which transfers the action from prewar Spain to modern Pakistan, misfires on just about every level. The House of Bilquis Bibi 2010-07-27T01:01:00Z Her good intentions, though, are the movie’s kryptonite; and as we watch flashbacks to Bahar’s happy prewar life, we see the seeds of another, better movie. ‘Girls of the Sun’ Review: Brave Women Enlisted in a Battle Against Subtlety 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z We see how the company reflected the changing artistic landscape of Europe, from the belle époch exoticism of the prewar years, through the futurist, cubist and constructivist phases of the avant garde. This week's new dance 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z That encounter is one of several reminders of the prewar normal, when Serbs and Muslims lived side by side and Aida and her family pursued an uneventful middle-class existence. ‘Quo Vadis, Aida?’ Review: Life and Death in Srebrenica 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z He does nothing awful in the war or in his prewar or postwar life, or in his life on the planet Tralfamadore. What Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z Phillips’s inaugural 20th Century & Contemporary Art sale in New York on Sunday includes prewar works by Giorgio de Chirico and Le Corbusier among its 52 lots. Christie’s and Sotheby’s Face Uncertainty at Fall Auctions 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z He added that free-standing structures owned by blacks from the prewar era are rare. Weeksville Black History Site Hobbled by Dip in Donations 2013-12-20T23:11:21Z The Ontario reminded her of Brooklyn brownstones and Harlem prewar buildings. A small, turn-of-the-century co-op gets a big dose of girly glam 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z In 1993, when Hope, who was six years her senior, had semiretired, she recorded her first album, “Now and Then,” a collection of prewar hits and more recent songs. Dolores Hope, Bob Hope?s Widow, Dies at 102 2011-09-19T22:15:06Z Representing the famously glorious prewar summer of 1914 proved more of a problem. The Village: the whole 20th century as seen from the Peak District 2013-03-25T07:00:23Z The show focuses on art from the 1920s to the 1960s and examines the aesthetic differences between prewar European modernists and the American up-and-comers who rose to prominence starting in the 1940s. Iggy Pop in England and Rauschenberg in China: Global Arts Guide 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Spies, photographers, climatologists, psychiatrists — in colonial Africa, prewar Vienna, the American South: You name it, and there is almost certainly something in Boyd’s prolific oeuvre that has it covered. William Boyd’s Madcap Burlesque Revisits the Summer of 1968 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z The servant class in the prewar years, we’re told, was plentiful and cheap to retain; grand houses routinely employed dozens of servants — and, in the most posh homes, servants for the upper-ranking servants. ‘Servants’: the real lives of butlers and maids 2013-12-11T18:44:04Z The influential group New York Intellectuals evolved out of those prewar and postwar debates. Exhibition Review: ‘WWII & NYC,’ at the New-York Historical Society 2012-10-04T23:36:35Z The gruesome final act of the famed writer made headlines throughout the world, but only served to remind Japanese citizens of the insanity of prewar militarism. Japan's Cute Army 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z United States cotton production fell to about 4 percent of prewar output. Exhibition Review: ‘Homefront and Battlefield’ Looks at Civil War Quilts 2014-05-05T20:59:16Z Because so many musicians had fled prewar Europe and come to the United States, the classical-music scene in Hollywood in the thirties and forties, Daugherty told me, was the second-best in the world. Wuvwy Music 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z I’ve lived alone in many apartments in the past decade, from a tiny, splintering studio in Iowa crawling with millipedes to a massive, cheap prewar in Kentucky that leaked each time it rained. The Loneliness of Longing for Other People’s Apartments 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z Stalin’s prewar Bolshevik nightmare was responsible for 20 million dead, but apparently was not so loathsome that the Soviet Union could not prove temporarily useful for Churchill and Roosevelt in bleeding out the Nazi Wehrmacht. When to Wage War, and How to Win: A Guide 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z You can learn more about Flora, Trip and others who lived through the war as you wander through five galleries, which include the prewar period through the postwar struggles of a new nation. New museum in Virginia explores other heroes of the Revolutionary War 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z It features 15 artists, each represented by concentrated clusters of work that in some cases amount to mini-career retrospectives and that together create an immersive sense of the vitality of the prewar period. Art Review: ‘American Legends: Calder to O’Keeffe’ at Whitney Museum 2012-12-27T22:56:49Z After the hubbub, they hope to work on their new loft, in a prewar building. Up Close: New York Fashion Week: Sharing a Profession and Much More 2011-02-09T21:54:48Z The newly renovated prewar penthouse is located in an exclusive building across from Central Park whose amenities include a 24-hour concierge, a large fitness center, and a residents’ lounge. See The Luxurious New York City Home of Knicks Forward Carmelo Anthony 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z The neighborhoods were full of old factories that had emptied out in the postwar years; they had room for art, if not crown molding and prewar charm. Finding Yoko Ono’s New York 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z Substantial remnants of the prewar collection were recovered piecemeal over the years, often in remarkable ways. YIVO Institute Makes Archives of Yiddish Life Available Online 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z Like Hemingway, Jake’s career has a significant international prewar prestige, and his public image is based on his man’s-manhood as well as his art. “The Other Side of the Wind,” Reviewed: A Belated Orson Welles Masterpiece 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z An architectural and cultural subset of such apartment houses is the gargantuan, prewar Upper West Side palace, at once a city-state of casual opulence and a provincial village stuffed with eccentrics. A Drug-Fueled New York City Bacchanal and the Lives It Changed 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z Imagine being on the lookout for your ideal Manhattan apartment: prewar and downtown, bathed in light, lucky in its views. Arthur Dunnam 2010-08-01T04:00:00Z Introducing Sophie in her adult distractibility and distress and then going backward to show her family’s life in prewar Europe is a rewarding strategy. A Skeptical Heroine, Unconvinced by Religion, Romance or Psychoanalysis 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z Such a casual response to wealth and glamour may be the most telling sign that Byblos, Lebanon’s prewar jewel of the Mediterranean, is back. 2010-01-05T22:35:00Z On his endless walks, his thoughts turn repeatedly to a quiet cottage with lace curtains, a prewar life that now seems as fantastical as those mirages. 'The Way Back': Prisoners take it step by step in Peter Weir's great escape drama 2011-01-20T22:53:21Z Geometric abstraction’s emphasis on art’s concrete properties traced its origins to prewar Europe, especially Constructivist and De Stijl paintings and sculptures. Two explorations of the power and prominence of Latino art: 'Anna Maria Maiolino' and 'Carlos Almaraz' 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z The label harks back to aristocratic prewar building names, which were often affixed to glamorous architectural showpieces to lure the upper crust. From ‘Liz’ to ‘The Jason’: The bizarre trend of fancy apartments with human names 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z Other private collectors have conducted provenance research and returned works when warranted: Ronald S. Lauder’s Neue Galerie, for instance, has returned several works from its collection to the original prewar owners. Is Nazi Loot Amid His 6,000 Oils, Some Grenades and Napoleon’s Toothbrush? 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z The results, which perhaps betray the inexperience of the ensemble too often, represent less a reversion to Walter’s prewar type than a rarefied era of their own; they exude luminosity. Bruno Walter, a Conductor Who Found Truth Through Beauty 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z The foundation’s purpose, Dr. Genner wrote, would be to help educate children, preferably “of Jewish heritage from prewar Germany,” who “for health reasons” needed to attend school in Vaud’s favorable climate. Heirs Sue Bank Over Sale of Nazi-Looted Art 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z The Museum of Modern Art, so rich in European innovation, almost invariably relegates its relatively meager American prewar holdings to the hallways, if not storage. A Trans-Atlantic View of Modernism 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z They studied prewar photographs, drawings and other documentation, built models and made on-site investigations of wooden churches and other buildings still found in Poland and Ukraine. Architecture: A 300-Year-Old Synagogue Comes Back to Life in Poland 2011-06-15T12:00:05Z And Apter-Fredericks have created the somewhat startling effect of floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking Uptown Manhattan, while their arrangement of ware conjures the living room of a prewar apartment. Winter Antiques Show Offers a Collection of Recent and Rare Works 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z Early pieces by W. C. Heinz and Shirley Povich strut that slangy prewar voice that seems so distinctively and jauntily American. Review, ‘Football: Great Writing about the National Sport,’ edited by John Schulian Here we see pragmatic, baffled Judith – crisply performed by Kristin Hutchinson – packing to leave Hitler's prewar Germany. The Jewish Wife 2010-07-30T21:01:00Z Thanks to his extensive prewar travels in Syria and Mesopotamia, he understood their manners, their mentality, their language. Sue Arnold's audiobook choice - review 2012-10-05T21:55:10Z Pavlos then pointed out that—as a consequence of our having, a few years earlier, merged our original small prewar apartment with another—we had access to a second elevator hall. Alexa Hampton Blends Classical with Contemporary in Her Family's New York Home 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z Along with plush velvet banquettes, he introduced armchairs with curving gilded frames and mahogany dining chairs with carved camellias sprouting from their backs—infusing the space with a distinctive prewar elegance. Turning Tables 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z But, starting Monday, through the alchemy of digitization, 4.1 million pages that record the entire surviving prewar collection now held in both locations will be made available to scholars and the interested public worldwide. YIVO Institute Makes Archives of Yiddish Life Available Online 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z He worked briefly for the prewar opposition to the Germans and then rejoined the French Army in 1940. Battlefields: Recent Books in Military History 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Still, the room was cozy, and the view of water towers and prewar brick buildings felt distinctively Gotham. Six New (and Affordable) Boutique Hotels in New York 2010-06-18T21:58:00Z If the idea was to capture the sense of a city in denial at the horrors shortly to come, it badly backfired as its main effect was to neutralise any sense of prewar paranoia. TV review: Spies of Warsaw; The Food Inspectors 2013-01-09T22:30:00Z Then, it was dark and gray and empty, the prewar buildings still pockmarked with bullet holes. In Berlin, it’s a whole new city, but the Wall’s traces remain The play takes place in a prewar apartment in Chinatown, where three generations of the Blake family are assembling for Thanksgiving dinner. Review: ‘The Humans’ Depicts a Family, and a Country, Under Pressure 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z His book examines the politics of prewar Serbia and its support for nationalist, even terrorist groups as a kind of early “rogue state,” and he looks freshly at the role and importance of Russia. Margaret MacMillan Discusses Causes of World War I 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z You'll find it in Rogers Park, between the beach and the old chocolate brown prewar apartment buildings that overlook Loyola Park. Artists and non-artists collaborate on Rogers Park project 2011-07-01T17:08:00Z The 2,200-square-foot residence, which the Marie Antoinette star purchased in January of this year, is located in a prewar building with high ceilings, arched windows, and views of the Hudson River. Rent Kirsten Dunst’s Manhattan Apartment 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z The space is a converted prewar apartment, and her large, spattery abstract paintings provide a sharp contrast to the clean moldings. In the Studio With an Actress-Turned-Painter 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z On the desk was a pack of prewar Lucky Strike cigarettes, thought to have belonged to O’Neill. Discovering Eugene O’Neill’s San Francisco 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z Its rooftop café, which becomes the Martini Bar on Friday and Saturday evenings, overlooks Central Park; the view is of leafy treetops, a mostly prewar skyline, and an unobstructed celestial display worthy of Bierstadt. Sarah Larson: The Met’s Rooftop Martini Bar 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z Were it not for the maggots, it is pretty safe to say the case of Dr Buck Ruxton, one of Britain's most celebrated prewar murders, would be all but forgotten. Lords of the flies: the insect detectives 2010-09-23T07:00:00Z The museum is sorting the archive for Web site postings and exhibitions about the family’s prewar life and movie versions of their story. Antiques: Auction Lots, Including Frank Family Letters, to Be Shown 2012-12-27T22:11:36Z As is the institute, set in a forest in an unnamed Germanic place at a hard-to-pin-down time in the prewar past. The Week Ahead: Aug. 19 — 25 2012-08-17T20:40:22Z An odd mix of Three Stooges slapstick and prewar music hall, it is little more than an intriguing curio. Diana Dors: more than just the British Marilyn Monroe 2010-06-10T22:06:00Z On weekends, he packed his prewar L. L. Bean shoulder bag with pens and pencils, a notebook, a photo logbook and a monocle. Julia Child, Seen Through Her Husband’s Lens 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z In the annals of New York City prewar real estate, few architects are as admired as Rosario Candela. A Family-Friendly Manhattan Home 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z The house was full at Jalopy, where prewar music has a local home. Music Review: Frank Fairfield and Blind Boy Paxton at Jalopy 2010-07-21T22:41:00Z "The Lady in Gold" paints a vivid picture of Vienna's prewar Jewish intelligentsia, the artistic career of Klimt, the horrifying rise of Nazism and the complexities of international law and art restitution. 'The Lady in Gold': reclaiming a masterpiece 2012-02-22T22:01:04Z Elsewhere, the M50 Art Industry Park is a huge arts community set in a prewar textile manufacturing complex. Conquering High-Priced Shanghai, From Dumplings to Modern Art 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z Like much prewar Japanese cinema, that film now appears to be lost. Hideko Takamine, Lauded Japanese Actress, Dies at 86 2011-01-04T01:08:46Z Babelsberg, Potsdam’s largest district, developed into a prewar Hollywood with the founding of Studio Babelsberg, the world’s first major movie studio. Heads Up: In Potsdam, Germany, a Time to Celebrate 2012-01-27T18:02:32Z Some violins were played at concentration camps; others were used to play klezmer music, a lively, soulful Jewish folk music popular in prewar Eastern Europe. Exhibit of 18 violins tells story of the Holocaust 2012-04-13T20:05:11Z According to the center’s director, Tone Hansen, the museum is reviewing the origins of 18 prewar works as a result of this case. Rosenberg Family’s Quest to Regain Art Stolen by Nazis 2013-04-26T19:51:24Z Downtown, elegant prewar skyscrapers that had sat hauntingly empty for years had begun to fill up with luxury apartments and hotels. Shinola Takes Its ‘Detroit Cool’ Message on the Road 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Corcoran, perhaps his most tireless champion, was at least able to uncover when, where, and how Phillips died—with prewar musicians, these kinds of facts are often disturbingly elusive. Some of Us Are Haunted by Washington Phillips 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z The Auschwitz violin and 17 others with connections to the vanished world of Europe's prewar Jewish communities are part of a new exhibit and performance series called "Violins of Hope." Exhibit of 18 violins tells story of the Holocaust 2012-04-13T20:05:11Z Stevens’ feature films after he returned from the war were much more dramatic and serious than his prewar comedies. 'From Hollywood to Nuremberg': How three noted filmmakers used their cameras to document Nazi atrocities 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z Ms. Aymé’s prewar paintings include portraits of Asian peasants and servants, especially women with infants, and scenes of ruins and covered markets with bursts of sun between columns and stacks of produce. ‘Little Dreams in Glass and Metal’ Spotlights Enameling 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z A sardonic riff on the difference between postwar and prewar ideas is matched by an angry discussion on the gap between constitutionally guaranteed rights and brutal realities. Movies 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z Consigned by the family of the prominent prewar British collector Samuel Courtauld, and offered without a guarantee, it carries an estimate of 8 million to 12 million pounds, about $12 million to $18 million. Auction of a Cézanne Highlights New Realities 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z Horsehair, such as in your grandmother’s mattress or stabilizing the plaster of prewar apartments, is also a buffet. Moths Have Been Partying in Your Dark Closet. What Now? 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, he remained acutely attentive to his Jewish identity and situation as a semi-foreigner and sociocultural alien in Vienna, from the later Victorian and prewar years to his fleeing from the Nazis in 1938. ‘Becoming Freud’ Recounts the Psychoanalyst’s First 50 Years 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z Then it must be his silk prewar shirt, periwinkle with white stripes. Father 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z In the years that followed, using an extensive archive of prewar photographs, the city worked to rebuild it stone by stone, to restore as much as possible of its prewar grandeur. In Munich and Dessau, Art and Design Call. But History Is Even More Compelling. 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Scholars have speculated that he was chronicling his traumatic prewar experiences while exulting in his newfound creative freedom. Antiques: At Antiquarian Book Fair, Photos of Obama Ancestors 2012-04-05T22:12:59Z We live in a solid prewar building, and our neighbors are civil when we meet in passing, which is rare. As if Thanksgiving Weren’t Stressful Enough This Year 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z The homeless camp out on the meridians dividing traffic on Broadway, or squat in prewar apartments. Lionel Shriver Imagines America’s Collapse 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z I imagine there is plenty more to tell, especially about the prewar lives and postwar fates of the refugees the sisters helped, than Ida Cook does in a book that is often discreet. Ida and Louise Cook, Two Unusual Heroines of the Second World War 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z After 30 minutes or so of walking, guided at some points by the Droid's map app, I made it to Bucharest's pleasant prewar city center, where grand Parisian-style buildings lined snow-covered pedestrian streets. Stress Tests 2011-02-09T23:00:00Z On the market were two adjacent apartments in a prewar Park Avenue building designed by architect J. E. R. Carpenter and noted for its high ceilings and generously proportioned rooms. Art Takes Center Stage in a Redesigned New York City Home 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z An additional factor was the loss of living historical memory of prewar Vienna. Still Searching For Bruckner?s True Intentions 2011-07-09T04:30:28Z There is also a tabletop touch screen called a Memory Pool, on which photographs of Jews in prewar Europe seem to float. Museum Review: New Holocaust Museums Must Make Hard Choices 2011-03-23T12:37:55Z This thesis ignores prewar developments like Futurism, Dada and Surrealism by artists who knew a thing or two about anarchy, and puts on hold Abstract Expressionism, Pop and Minimalism. Postwar Art Gets a Nervy Makeover 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z SAT Rides in vehicles from the ACM Collection, vehicles vary, selection from antiques and prewar classics to the 1950s, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z She also incorporated aprons and wraparound skirts into her prewar silhouette, as if anticipating thousands of bicycling Frenchwomen. Schiaparelli and Prada Connected With Women?s Inner Feelings 2012-04-11T22:01:05Z It’s housed in the six-room, prewar Carnegie Hill co-op he shares with his life partner, Bruce Wayne, a celebrity makeup artist. His Passion Emerges Annually. He Hangs It on a Tree. Or Three. 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z The early scenes reflect the unsustainable excess of prewar life; the walls of the Marschallin’s bedroom seem barely able to hold the weight of all the portraits, the history, of her family. Robert Carsen Is Opera’s Most Reliably Excellent Director 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z It also set an auction record for the most expensive work of prewar American art sold, according to Christie’s. Edward Hopper’s painting ‘Chop Suey,’ once promised to SAM, instead sells for a record $91.9 million 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z But when Jane Marlowe and her partner moved there in 1981, she was more interested in a prewar apartment with an easy Manhattan commute than the neighborhood’s ethnic diversity. A World of Food, Outside the U.S. Open Gates 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z Defense Department, in December 2008 the overall level of violence in the country had dropped 80 percent since before the surge began in January 2007, and the country’s murder rate had dropped to prewar levels. Recent editorials from Texas newspapers 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z In places rooms were restored to their prewar state, but more often they were cleaned up, stabilised versions of the spaces as he found them, with fragments of decoration clinging to exposed brick and stone. David Chipperfield: master of permanence 2011-02-06T00:06:23Z Nomura’s blossoming painting career was derailed by his incarceration, and he never regained his prewar fame. New book and exhibition aim to give Seattle Japanese American artist Kenjiro Nomura the credit he deserves 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z Gordon concedes this point, but notes that it was always thus — and that the understatement of progress was probably bigger during the great prewar transformation than it is today. The Powers That Were 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z In 1970, documents indicate, a Swiss Bank director advocated resurrecting the foundation to function as the Kainers’ legal successor and to help educate children, preferably “of Jewish heritage from prewar Germany.” Heirs Sue Over Ownership of a Pissarro, Saying It Was Seized by Nazis 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z She writes that she did not, as some critics of her prewar reporting supposed, sit in her office and wait for the phone to ring. Review: Judith Miller’s ‘The Story: A Reporter’s Journey’ 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z There will also be more minority artists, more female artists, a more comprehensive collection of prewar photography and more examples of artist collectives, like Asco, the Chicano collective from Los Angeles. The Whitney Museum, Soon to Open Its New Home, Searches for American Identity 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z The organization gave its new leader nearly half the purchase price of a $1.9 million, three-bedroom prewar home overlooking Prospect Park that she could call her own. BAM Helped Buy Its Boss a New Home. She Left in Under 6 Years. 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z Whiteside has assiduously converted his suburban semi into a prewar home. Modern life is rubbish! The people whose homes are portals to the past 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z “There’s less interest in prewar cars. People are more interested in modern Porsches. They appeal to a new generation of buyers.” Young Collectors Take a Turn Toward Cars That Are More Modern 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z I live in a prewar walkup; my lights are rarely far from my hands; I certainly don’t have a garage. Yelling at Amazon’s Alexa 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Fire, I suddenly realized, can be a stressful background noise in a prewar apartment building. “Slow Radio,” The Podcast That Promotes Monks, Moose, and Inner Peace 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z Now Lives: In a prewar one-bedroom in the West Village, and can often be found writing around the corner at Grounded Coffee House on Jane Street. After Partying in Montauk All Summer, He Wrote a Memoir About It 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z At 9 p.m. on a recent Thursday, Ms. Rosenfelt, wearing a black sweater, miniskirt and combat boots, appeared behind a blue door in the unimposing prewar apartment building. New York?s Literary Cubs 2011-11-30T23:21:40Z I always suspected my prewar apartment to be in a state of perpetual crumbling, but this was a new element. The Mushrooms Will Survive Us 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z In the oppressively orderly culture of prewar Europe, “Fantômas” offered a fantasy of violent escape and perfect autonomy. DVD: When Fant?mas Held All of Paris in His Criminal Thrall 2010-09-19T04:36:00Z A product of the old school in the most literal sense, his prewar attitude hasn’t aged well as we move into the late ’60s. Mad Men Watch: Three Bad Trips 2012-04-23T12:00:25Z And Brigitte Reiffenstuel’s costumes make you long for the elegance of prewar fashions until you are brought up short by remembering what happened to those who wore them. Review: In Stoppard’s ‘Leopoldstadt,’ a Memorial to a Lost World 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z This interactive exhibit allows users to explore space in the Jewish Quarter of prewar Lodz, understanding what daily life was like for so many Jews before they were displaced and murdered during the Holocaust. 5 websites to help educate about the horrors of the Holocaust 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z After the war, the city resumed much of its robust prewar growth. Hope and Dread Are Infused in ‘Berlin Metropolis’ 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z It also takes the public obsession with the prewar and the posh into entirely new terrain. BBC looks to steal Downton ratings with two helpings of PG Wodehouse 2012-12-29T22:35:29Z “She dressed in prewar gingham instead of pantsuits, flamboyant Western garb or satin costumes.” Kitty Wells, Country Singer, Dies at 92 2012-07-16T21:02:25Z Wolfgang Pedersen followed in the footsteps of the prewar émigrés after the commercial success of Das Boot – he's since made In the Line of Fire, The Perfect Storm and Troy in Hollywood. New Europe: A history of German cinema in clips 2011-03-15T14:20:00Z “Initially, I wrote about all these as if war and peace were discrete: prewar, war, peace or postwar,” she said. Marilyn Young, Historian Who Challenged U.S. Foreign Policy, Dies at 79 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Full House Twenty years ago, my husband, Michael Steinberg, and I moved - with our two children and two cairn terriers - into a 4,000-square-foot, 10-room apartment in a prewar building on Park Avenue. T Magazine: Full House 2012-11-02T22:42:42Z Mr. Weidenfeld’s memory of being offered sanctuary in prewar Britain by the Plymouth Brethren, an evangelical Christian denomination, remained with him his whole life. George Weidenfeld, British Publisher of ‘Lolita’ and London Fixture, Dies at 96 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Because unlike Giselle, the unemployed, recently animated naïf flouncing around Robert’s prewar apartment, Nancy, a successful fashion designer, wants things. Someday My Prince Will Leave Me for Someone More Low-Key 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z Even though de Groot is one of those New York patricians living off inherited wealth in a prewar penthouse with views of Central Park, we still root for him. Review: ‘The Last Painting of Sara de Vos,’ a riveting tale of art theft 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z The inviting space features a mix of modern, streamlined finishes with eclectic decor and original prewar details. Tour Michelle Williams’s Brooklyn Townhouse 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z For the foyer of their classic prewar apartment, she said, “I wanted a powerful statement piece instead of a table that people put flowers on.” Where Women and Artists of Color Set the Tone 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z Carrie, on the other hand, is ready to give up her perfect little apartment to buy a massive Gramercy Park prewar palace, because Aidan will never step foot in her place again. "And Just Like That" demonstrates the mother of all downers: spoiled rich kids 2023-08-13T04:00:00Z But it’s also a brilliant trick, a time capsule within a time capsule that captures both the constraints and possibilities of life as a bohemian woman in prewar New York. A Dollhouse You Could Call Home 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z “You have a prewar thriving Jewish community, you have the Nazis, you have the Communists, and now you have a renewal.” Heads Up: Historic School Building Now a Cultural Center in Berlin 2012-03-09T20:32:13Z “I was supposed to send him poems as I wrote them,” she said, her legs folded on an ottoman in her prewar apartment on Riverside Drive as she stroked her Tibetan terrier, Waldo. Up Close: Lisa Grunwald?s True Colors 2010-04-21T21:07:00Z Leimert Park, where prewar City Beautiful ambition and rich postwar African American cultural history are piled together, is certainly one of them. Los Angeles public space is rambunctious again; let's dress it properly 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Tauck’s guides also provided a diverse sense of modern-day Budapest, including a Monday late-night visit to some “ruin bars” — established by local entrepreneurs to transform decrepit prewar buildings into colorful, jazzy watering holes. Swapping a boat for a bus to explore Prague, Vienna and Budapest 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Doubtless the Bush-haters will assume he wrote the letters to his family as a form of prewar spin planning that could be trotted out postwar when it all went wrong. Decision Points by George W Bush ? review 2010-11-19T10:09:00Z This city, devastated by bombing during World War II, has meticulously refashioned itself into a prewar picture postcard. The 41 Places to Go in 2011 2011-01-07T21:03:56Z The hotel and the train station coexist in one long, outstretched building, which was completed in 1914 and offers a refreshing prewar architectural counterpoint to the glittering glass-and-steel skyscrapers Tokyo is now known for. A $1,000 Day in Tokyo for $100 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Those prewar European researchers would have regarded the idea that obesity results from “excess calories” as laughably simplistic. The sugar conspiracy | Ian Leslie 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z The prewar collection was restored in several ways, most notably through the work of the “Paper Brigade” — a group of 40 poets and intellectuals. YIVO Institute Makes Archives of Yiddish Life Available Online 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z The prewar Los Angeles that produced the original Wrigley Field is one we forget about too easily and talk about too little. The battle of the ballparks: Cubs vs. Dodgers and the lost history of L.A.'s own Wrigley Field 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z She shops at Zabar’s, does Pilates on Columbus Avenue and resides comfortably in a prewar high rise between West End and Riverside, where she gossips about private lives as though they were front-page news. ‘Let’s Call Her Patty’ Review: Unseen Depths of an Uptown Matriarch 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z Perhaps because she is self-taught, she has carved out her own distinctive style: dangerously committed performances coloured by prewar Berlin cabaret and a childhood spent listening to her French mother's Jacques Brel records. Camille O'Sullivan: From cabaret to chaos 2012-08-13T17:44:54Z With its glass dome rising among the prewar buildings of the Upper West Side, the Rose Center for Earth and Space was at first considered sacrilege by some residents. President of Museum of Natural History to Step Down After Nearly 30 Years 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z There are no jobs for the nearly 71,000 residents in the city, which had a prewar population of 300,000. One year after liberation, Ukrainians in Kherson hold on to hope amid constant shelling 2023-11-11T05:00:00Z Syria’s uprising-turned civil war, now in its 13th year, has killed nearly half a million people, displaced half of its prewar population of 23 million and crippled infrastructure in both government and opposition-held areas. UN official: Hostilities in Syria have reached the worst point in four years 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z Japan has in place hurdles for restraining religious activities due to lessons from the prewar and wartime oppression of freedom of religion and thought. Japan’s government asks a court to revoke the legal religious status of the Unification Church 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z It has displaced half of Syria’s prewar population of 23 million, including more than 5 million who are refugees outside Syria. Drone attack kills 80 and wounds 240 at a packed Syrian military graduation ceremony, official says 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z In months that followed, bombs rained down on the northeastern metropolis almost daily, wrecking hundreds of buildings, killing and maiming civilians and scattering much of the prewar population of 1.4 million people. 'In darkness we find light': As missiles fall, Jews in Ukraine mark Rosh Hashana 2023-09-17T04:00:00Z Russia has managed to overcome sanctions and export controls imposed by the West to expand its missile production beyond prewar levels, according to U.S., Russia Overcomes Sanctions to Expand Missile Production, Officials Say 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z The conflict has displaced half of Syria’s prewar population of 23 million, including more than 5 million who are refugees outside the country. US-backed Kurdish fighters say battles with tribesmen in eastern Syria that killed dozens have ended 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z The conflict has displaced half the country’s prewar population of 23 million, including more than 5 million who are refugees outside the country. Protesters in southern Syria smash statue as they mark 2015 assassination of anti-government leader 2023-09-04T04:00:00Z At least 300,000 civilians have been killed in the conflict, half of Syria’s prewar population of 23 million has been displaced and large parts of the infrastructure have been crippled. Syria protests spurred by economic misery stir memories of the 2011 anti-government uprising 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z By 1929, its GDP was 12 percent higher than it had been in 1913, the last full prewar year, despite losing two million prime-age male workers in the war, with millions more disabled. Russia, Ukraine and Versailles: Bogus lessons from history won't solve this crisis 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z It means many farmers are simply not planting as much: corn and wheat production in agriculture-dependent Ukraine is down nearly 40% this year from prewar levels, analysts say. As the Black Sea becomes a battleground, one Ukrainian farmer doesn’t know how he’ll sell his grain 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z Syria’s war has killed a half-million people, wounded more than a million, left large parts of the nation destroyed and displaced half the country’s prewar population of 23 million. Assad blames Erdogan for violence in Syria and insists on a pullout of Turkish troops 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z Scavengers scoured old shipwrecks to extract scraps of prewar steel. AI-Generated Data Can Poison Future AI Models 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z As Melbourne’s last generation of prewar Yiddish speakers fades out, the language comes to life for most present-day speakers in settings like Sof-Vokh or in classes, as well as through Melbourne’s thriving Yiddish music scene. A Yiddish Haven Thrives in Australia 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z Even so, while food prices have been drifting downward, they are likely to remain high compared with to prewar levels, the think tank said. Wheat prices jump after Russia pulls out of the Black Sea grain deal. 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z But the community with a prewar population of 25,000 may as well be a world away. Desperate Ukrainians take long and uncertain journey to escape Russian occupation 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z Syria’s uprising which turned into a full-blown civil war, now in its 13th year, has killed nearly half a million people and displaced half of its prewar population of 23 million. Syria revokes BBC’s media accreditation and accuses the British broadcaster of spreading ‘fake news’ 2023-07-09T04:00:00Z But about half the city’s prewar population of 100,000 still lives here, and there was no visible exodus, despite all the recent warnings of impending doom. Ukrainian Nuclear Plant Is Just One of Innumerable Problems for Its Neighbors 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z Syria’s uprising-turned civil war, now in its 13th year, has killed nearly half a million people and displaced half of its prewar population of 23 million. Jordan’s foreign minister calls for investment into war-torn Syria to speed up refugee returns 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z Syria’s uprising-turned conflict, now in its 13th year, has killed nearly a half million people and displaced half of its prewar population of 23 million. UN votes to establish independent body to clarify fate of over 130,000 Syrians missing in conflict 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z Syria’s uprising-turned conflict, now in its 13th year, has killed nearly half a million people and displaced half of its prewar population of 23 million. UN warns that 90% of Syrians are below the poverty line, while millions face cuts in food aid 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z The Syrian conflict killed nearly 500,000 people and displaced half of the country’s prewar population of 23 million. Kazakhstan abruptly announces it will no longer host Syria talks, amid Russian surprise 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z “There may even have been a contraction from prewar cooperation, because after all, the U.S. sanctions need to be taken into account,” said Xiao Bin, a foreign policy researcher in Beijing, referring to Chinese investment. Behind a Birthday Message, the Delicate Duet of Putin and Xi 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z Their wrecks are believed to have been looted previously in 2015, as salvage crews seek valuable “prewar steel.” Malaysia seizes Chinese ship suspected of plundering sunken WWII battleships 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z Known as prewar steel, the material from the two warships is valuable and could be smelted for use in manufacturing of sensitive scientific and medical equipment. Malaysia finds 100 artillery shells on Chinese barge, says it likely plundered WWII shipwrecks 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z Both sides made outsize investments in men and matériel to take and hold a relatively small and now-devastated city, which had a prewar population of more than 70,000. What’s Next for Russia After Spilling So Much Blood for Bakhmut? 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z The people of Europe had simply fought too hard in World War II to return to the conditions of the Great Depression or the bitter class struggles of the prewar period. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z And populations in Africa and Asia, feeling they had earned liberation from prewar colonialism, began to reach for more self- determination and national legitimacy. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z While the tiny amounts of radiation in modern metals are irrelevant for most applications, prewar metals, notably steel and lead, are ideal for highly sensitive particle experiments and in medical science devices like X-ray machines. Malaysia seizes Chinese ship suspected of plundering sunken WWII battleships 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z Former Confederate combatants were allowed to vote, and confiscated Confederate property was returned to its prewar owners. Expert: US has long history of silencing Black officials and disenfranchising their constituents 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z Transit costs, now four to six times higher than prewar levels, have rendered grain production prohibitively expensive. Ukraine farmers risk losing their lives or livelihoods 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z Bus tickets on the Sudanese side cost more than five times the prewar norm, workers and drivers at the Aswan bus stop said. An Exodus by Bus From Sudan: Sniper Fire, Desert Journeys and Fear 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z Industrial production had dropped significantly below prewar levels, as had agricultural production and particularly grain output. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Likewise, the American team that won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering previously unknown particles used prewar steel sourced from the US Navy battleship Missouri. Malaysia seizes Chinese ship suspected of plundering sunken WWII battleships 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z The city had a prewar population of 80,000 and was an important industrial center. Russia’s Wagner boss threatens Bakhmut pullout in Ukraine 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z Only about a quarter of the prewar population of about 4,000 people has returned, he said. At Ukraine’s Gravesites, a Spring Ritual Hints at Renewal 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z And the economics of conversion make more sense with prewar buildings. How to make a fading office building into a high-rise apartment 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z Imports between October and January were 50 percent or more of median prewar levels each month, according to tracking by Silverado Policy Accelerator, a think tank. U.S. and E.U. Face Uphill Fight in Keeping Chips Out of Russia 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z If all goes as planned, the factory’s parent company, Nammo, will be turning out as many as 200,000 of the shells a year by 2028 — up to 20 times its prewar production. Europe has pledged a million shells for Ukraine a year, but it probably can’t deliver. 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z If all goes as planned, the factory’s parent company, Nammo, will be turning out as many as 200,000 of the shells a year by 2028 — up to 20 times more than its prewar production. Europe Has Pledged a Million Shells for Ukraine in a Year. Can It Deliver? 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z He went to the prewar Imperial Naval Academy in Hiroshima. Opinion | Japan’s cherry blossoms are still helping make human connections 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z Russia has been compelled to reroute its natural gas exports to China instead, with planned sales this year expected to hit 22 billion cubic meters, twice the prewar figure, according to S&P Global. No place to hide for global investors facing mounting political risks 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z But he saw their presence as evidence that Russia’s big prewar stockpile of electronics was finally running out. U.S. and E.U. Face Uphill Fight in Keeping Chips Out of Russia 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z Bakhmut, an industrial city with a prewar population of around 70,000, is at the heart of a Russian campaign to seize all of the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. Wagner claims ‘legal’ control of Bakhmut, while Ukraine says it is still fighting. 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z The winning candidate, Republican Warren G. Harding, promised a “return to normalcy,” restoring the prewar way of life. Yes, Trump could run for president from prison. This candidate did it in 1920. 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z Some say they are too ill, others too attached to their prewar lives. Amid Ruins and Explosions, Some Ukrainians Refuse to Leave Home 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z About 2,000 civilians remain out of a prewar population of 30,000, and Mr. Barabash, head of the city’s military administration, barred other civilians, including journalists and aid workers, from entering the town. U.N. Official Heads to Ukrainian Nuclear Plant as Safety Fears Grow 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z In prewar Germany, he notes, liberals were bashing each other as fascism took root. Jeff Sharlet predicts fascism in America. He's still an optimist 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z While his tank proposal quickly became policy, he lost a contentious prewar debate in May 2021 on whether to waive sanctions on Germany and Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline. The Ukraine war is Antony Blinken’s defining moment 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Turkey has backed armed opposition groups in Syria that have sought to overturn Assad’s government during the civil war, which has killed nearly 500,000 people and displaced half of the country’s prewar population. Putin hosts Assad, expected to focus on rebuilding Syria 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z The Wagner Group has spearheaded the Russian offensive in Bakhmut that has lasted for six months and reduced the city with a prewar population of more than 70,000 to a smoldering wasteland. Russian Wagner Group chief claims extended gains in Bakhmut 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z The Russia’s state nuclear company, Rosatom, has taken over management of the plant, but many of its prewar Ukrainian staff members still work there. U.N. Official Heads to Ukrainian Nuclear Plant as Safety Fears Grow 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z Bakhmut, which had a prewar population of more than 70,000, was an important center for salt and gypsum mining in the Donetsk region of the country’s industrial heartland known as the Donbas. Battle for Bakhmut takes center stage in war in Ukraine 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z Not only is Ukraine’s inventory dwindling, but the U.S. prewar production of the shells, fewer than 15,000 per month, is scarcely enough to sustain Ukraine for five days. Opinion | Biden must follow Roosevelt’s ‘arsenal of democracy’ example 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z I’m haunted by James McPherson’s account of the prewar period in his seminal work, “Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era.” Take threats of ‘National Divorce’ seriously 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z The town of Marinka does not really exist anymore beyond a point on a map, abandoned by the roughly 9,000 prewar residents. This Is What Trench Warfare on the Front Line Is Like 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z It has gradually climbed back to just under its prewar value. Blinken Finds Receptive Leaders in Central Asia, Where Russia Seeks Aid 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z The eastern city, which had a prewar population of around 70,000 people, has become a focus of the fighting, with both sides pouring in troops and taking significant losses. Zelensky says the situation in Bakhmut is ‘getting more and more difficult.’ 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z A handful of countries have filled the gap, increasing exports to Russia well above prewar levels, according to data collected by Silverado Policy Accelerator, a Washington nonprofit. The West tried to isolate Russia. It didn’t work 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z Although Russia briefly suspended its participation in the deal in October, the agreement has largely held, and global grain prices have returned to prewar levels. Six ways the war changed the world. 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z While many U.S. companies have left the country, exports to Russia from other countries are now well above prewar levels. Your Friday Briefing 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Of the prewar population of 80,000, a few thousand residents have refused or been unable to evacuate. New drone footage shows scale of Bakhmut’s destruction 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z In 1952, Dwight D. Eisenhower ran for president primarily to protect the Republican Party and the Republic from Robert A. Taft, who had been wrong about prewar preparedness and about postwar collective security. Opinion | Putin can win only if Josh Hawley-esque isolationists multiply 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z In January, gas prices on the European spot market were back to their prewar level. EU climate czar: Putin’s war accelerated green transition 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z Melitopol, a transport hub near the Black Sea coast with a prewar population of about 150,000, fell to Russia at the very start of the war. After a year of war, six Ukrainians share how their lives have changed 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z The group assessed that about half of Moscow’s prewar fleet of modern tanks, including the T-72B3 and T-72B3M models, is has been lost. Russia has lost around half of its tanks since invading Ukraine, a new report says. 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z Bakhmut, an industrial city surrounded by salt mines with a prewar population of around 70,000 people, has been under intense bombardment since the summer. Guided Missile Killed U.S. Aid Worker in Ukraine, Video Shows 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z Fewer than 5,000 residents remain, out of a prewar population of 70,000, as Russian forces edge closer to capturing the city. Ukraine steps up efforts to get civilians out of Bakhmut, in a further sign of a potential retreat. 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z Here was British machismo immune from mockery, the prewar vision of England that Fleming wanted to project onto a world turned upside-down — a world, in short, where the Beatles could become stars. Forget the Stones: Beatles vs. Bond was the real British rivalry, per a new book 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z Five apartment buildings were destroyed in the town, the office said, which had a prewar population of 14,000. Russian shells spark hospital fire before expected assault 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z The value of the ruble to the U.S. dollar pretty quickly rebounded to its prewar level and even reached a five-year high in July. Analysis | Biden’s 2022 State of the Union proposals: What flopped and what succeeded 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z Only about 45 percent of Syria’s prewar health care facilities are now operating, according to the International Rescue Committee. Earthquake Strikes Syrian Region Already Mired in Humanitarian Crisis 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z The city, which had a prewar population of around 70,000, has steadily been emptying as the fighting has intensified. Ukraine steps up efforts to get civilians out of Bakhmut, in a further sign of a potential retreat. 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z To some extent, it signals a resumption of Mr. Zelensky’s prewar focus on fighting corruption, aimed at maintaining Ukrainians’ trust in the wartime government despite the flurry of accusations and dismissals of government officials. In High-Profile Raids, Zelensky Showcases Will to Tackle Corruption 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z Out of a prewar population of 80,000, a few thousand residents remain. War’s longest battle exacts high price in ‘heart of Ukraine’ 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z The town, which had a prewar population of around 14,000, has been almost destroyed, but a Ukrainian military official emphasized on Tuesday that it was still under Kyiv’s control. Seeing a Prize, Russia Inundates a Ukraine City With Troops 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z Analysts estimate that Russia’s imports may have already recovered to prewar levels, or will soon do so. Your Wednesday Briefing: China Rebounds 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z Analysts estimate that Russia’s imports may have already recovered to prewar levels, or will soon do so, depending on their models. Russia Sidesteps Western Punishments, With Help From Friends 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z The ongoing conflict that started in Syria more than a decade ago has killed hundreds of thousands and displaced half the country’s prewar population of 23 million. Watchdog blames Syria’s air force for deadly chlorine attack 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z While it is of little strategic value, with a prewar population of about 10,000, Soledar is the first significant town taken by Russia since July. U.S. will supply M1 tanks to Ukraine; Germany approves Leopards 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z A small group of mechanical engineers and electricians who honed their skills in the city’s prewar manufacturing industry, which produced everything from weapons to textiles, built the first prototype. Bosnian war survivors share endurance hacks with Ukraine 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z Most of Soledar has been reduced to shattered buildings, jagged rubble and shell craters, and most of its prewar population of about 10,000 has fled. Russia’s Claim to Seize a Ukrainian Town Exposes Rifts Among Forces 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z And China has increased exports of semiconductors to Russia, though Russia’s total chip imports remain below prewar levels. Russia Sidesteps Western Punishments, With Help From Friends 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z The organization’s estimate, which represents nearly 10 percent of Russia’s prewar male prison population, is based on reports from sources in Russian penal colonies and could not be independently verified. Russia issues the first pardons to prisoners who fought in Ukraine, state media reports. 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z Amid the relentless sounds of outgoing and incoming fire, at least 90 percent of the city’s prewar population of 73,000 people have fled. More than 60 percent of Bakhmut has been destroyed, a Ukrainian official says. 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z In this context, the supposed weakness of Ukraine’s prewar polity — its corrupt politicians and feeble central state — are recast as strengths. Review | A new book on the war in Ukraine tries to tell a story in progress 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z When the weather was warm, Bakhmut was a logistics hub for the Ukrainian military, and it still had a large portion of its prewar civilian population. Frontline City’s Final Food Stand Finds a Way to Keep the Pizza Coming 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z Silverado Policy Accelerator, a Washington nonprofit, recently issued a similar analysis, estimating that the value of Russian imports from the rest of the world had exceeded prewar levels by September. Russia Sidesteps Western Punishments, With Help From Friends 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z European prices for natural gas rose to 17 times their prewar levels after Russia choked off most supplies over the war. Pain, few gains for investors as markets slumped in 2022 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Before those strikes, Kyiv expected to need at least $55 billion in foreign assistance next year to meet basic expenses — more than the country’s entire annual prewar spending. Russia is destroying Ukraine’s economy, raising costs for U.S. and allies 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z After months of the Russian Army’s trying to capture the city, the fighting around Bakhmut, which had a prewar population of around 70,000, has devolved into two main sectors: the south and east. The Infrared Hunt for Russian Troops in the Battle for Bakhmut 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z Both Ukrainian and Russian officials have acknowledged the recent Ukrainian strikes and attempts to hit Russian command centers, ammunition depots and supply routes in Melitopol, whose prewar population was about 150,000. Targeting One Southern City, Ukraine Hints at Next Front in the War 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z Russian forces took control of Kherson city and surrounding areas in late February and early March, and Posad-Pokrovske - with a prewar population of over 3,000 - ended up on the war’s front line. Ukrainians brave return to former frontline village after Russian retreat 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z But the city is down to half its prewar population of 1.4 million and is still in easy range of Russian missiles. Hero city: Crippled by Russian attacks, Ukraine’s science hotbed refuses to give up 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z Yet due mainly to the recent attacks, the internet connectivity rate is down to 35 percent of its prewar level. Russia is destroying Ukraine’s economy, raising costs for U.S. and allies 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z But in a city with a prewar population of around 300,000, maybe a few thousand folks are left in the center of town. Ecstasy Gives Way to Despair in a Liberated Ukrainian City 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z This decline, while a major reversal from prewar growth expectations, stands in sharp contrast to the double digits collapse of Venezuela’s economic output after a wave of American sanctions in 2019. War and Sanctions Threaten to Thrust Russia’s Economy Back in Time 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z Supplies couldn’t get across the front lines, and the city, with a prewar population of around 300,000, began to run out of food. He Returned a Dazed Soldier to the Russians. Ukraine Calls It Treason. 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z Throughout nine months of war, Lviv, an architectural gem with a prewar population of about 750,000, has served as a crucial humanitarian hub for those forced to abandon homes else- where. Lviv was once a safe haven for Ukrainians fleeing the war. Now it's suffering too 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z Coasting on his prewar renown, he won elections to Congress and as governor of Massachusetts, but he did little but make new enemies and dismay old friends: “The resolve ossified to rigidity.” Review | Should we celebrate Samuel Adams, or condemn him? 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z Even in its prewar heyday, the street might have appeared unprepossessing to outsiders. 'They didn’t expect us to fight back': How one street in Ukraine survived 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z Located where the Dnieper River meets the Black Sea, Kherson, with a prewar population of nearly 300,000, is by far the biggest city to be liberated. Witnesses recount detentions, torture, disappearances in occupied Kherson 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z Kherson, an urban hub with a prewar population in the hundreds of thousands, is mostly without heat, water, electricity, medicines or cellphone service. Amid Joy in Kherson, a Humanitarian Disaster Looms 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z Ukrainian officials were wary of the Russian pullback announced this week, fearing their soldiers could get drawn into an ambush in Kherson city, which had a prewar population of 280,000. Russia claims all troops gone from city in southern Ukraine 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z The city, with a prewar population of 280,000, is the only regional capital to be captured by Russian forces since the Feb. 24 invasion began. Russia says it’s withdrawing from key city in Ukraine 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z Ukrainian officials estimate that Russia has used up about 80 percent of its prewar supply of precision weapons like Iskander ballistic missiles and Kalibr cruise missiles. Aerial War Over Ukraine Heats Up as Russia Pounds Cities 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z More than 14 million people — about one-third of the prewar population — have been driven from their homes, according to the United Nations, with more than half of those now living abroad. Kherson Braces for Battle as Russian Administration Evacuates 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z The village, with a prewar population of about 1,000, is a short drive from Bucha, which saw hundreds of civilians killed under Russian occupation. Russians try to subdue Ukrainian towns by seizing mayors 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Though Ukrainian shipments resumed over the summer, Russia’s own crop and fertilizer exports have continued to lag far behind prewar levels, as many shipping companies, insurers and governments have been reluctant to deal with Moscow. Russia Rejoins Grain Deal, but Warns It Could Pull Out Again 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z While energy consumption across the country is still 30 percent below its prewar levels, in Kyiv it had returned to nearly what it was before Russia invaded in late February. Kyiv loses water, forcing residents to line up at the city’s wells. 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z And although wheat prices are lower than their prewar levels, due to the agreement between Russia and Ukraine to resume Black Sea grain exports, they remain about 80% higher than their average in 2019. IMF says Mideast, North Africa economies resilient in 2022 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z Kherson city, with a prewar population of about 284,000, was one of the first urban areas Russia captured when it invaded Ukraine, and it remains the largest city it holds. Ukrainian forces pile pressure on Russian-held Kherson 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Although exports have yet to reach their prewar levels, they have picked up in recent months. Russia threatens to block an extension of the Ukraine grain deal. 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z Inside her Chicago apartment, an airy prewar two-bedroom, built-in bookshelves by the fireplace display dolls from her childhood in St. Petersburg, Russia. How volunteers open their homes to women seeking abortions 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z The town had a prewar population of 4,500, but those who fled are being ordered to stay away until de-mining is complete. The bleak Ukrainian landscape Russia leaves behind: Corpses in the garden, land mines and fear 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z A recent study found that newborn babies in Tigray are dying at four times the prewar rate. After Secret U.S. Talks Fail, a Hidden War in Africa Rapidly Escalates 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z Before long, Burleson would bar from the mail virtually the entire socialist press, which, in the prewar years, had a combined circulation of two million. What you don't have and why: The crushing of American socialism and the left 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Kishida has split public opinion by honoring Abe with a state funeral, which opponents assailed as a prewar tradition designed to stir nationalism, without an acceptable legal basis or parliamentary discussion. Japan’s Kishida vows to regain trust in church controversy 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z Japan’s main political opposition parties boycotted the funeral, which critics say was a reminder of how prewar imperialist governments used state funerals to fan nationalism. Japanese former leader Abe honored at divisive state funeral 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z Opponents say Kishida’s one-sided decision without parliamentary approval was undemocratic, a reminder of how the prewar imperialist government used state funerals to fan nationalism. Japan holding state funeral for ex-leader Abe amid tensions 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed, large parts of the country have been destroyed and half the country’s prewar population has been displaced. Syria raps US-led coalition forces, oil losses in UN speech 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z There are an estimated 1 to 1.2 million people living in the Russian-occupied lands seized since Feb. 24, according to Ukrainian officials — less than half the prewar population. The referendums are taking place in areas from which large numbers of people have fled. 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Of a prewar workforce of 100 employees, most were evacuated and only about 20 remain. Front line farming: Bombs disrupt critical Ukraine industry 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z In response Russia has closed its main gas pipeline, with its flows to Europe now at one-fifth of the prewar levels. Op-Ed: Europeans are headed for a painful chapter, but they always prove resilient 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z The prewar funeral law was abolished after World War II. The only postwar state funeral for a political leader, for Shigeru Yoshida in 1967, also faced criticism for lacking legal bases. Japan holding state funeral for ex-leader Abe amid tensions 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z In his 80s, Mr. Lerner led tours at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Manhattan and joined the museum’s speakers bureau, talking to groups about his prewar and wartime experiences. Maximilian Lerner, Whose Espionage Skills Helped Win a War, Dies at 98 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z For years, Russians in Belgorod regularly traveled the 50 miles to Kharkiv — Ukraine’s second biggest city, with a prewar population of 2 million — to party, dine and shop. War May Be Distant in Moscow, but in One Russian Border City, It’s Real 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z Some of those people have since returned to Ukraine, which had a prewar population of around 44 million. Ukrainians face even tougher winter due to power disruptions - UN migration agency 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z While the 12,000 remaining residents of a prewar population of 40,000 celebrated Izium’s liberation from Russian control, their joy was tempered by the destruction wrought over the past six months. Ukrainian Offensive Seen as Reshaping the War’s Contours 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z Even Russian policymakers have said that it will take years for Russia’s economy to rebound to prewar levels and that its growth will be hampered as long as Western sanctions are in place. Dismissing Losses in Ukraine, Putin Says Russia Is Gaining From War 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Ukraine is still a long way from returning to its prewar export levels, when close to 200 ships moved through its ports each month. 13 Ships Carrying Grain Set Sail, the Largest Convoy So Far 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z But oil is easier to ship and disguise than gas, and Russia, which makes much more money from oil than from gas, has continued to pump and sell oil at close to prewar levels. Will a Renewed Iran Nuclear Deal Mean Cheaper Energy? 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Berlin, who hails from the city, which had a prewar population of around 70,000, was appointed the commander of his company roughly four days ago, he said. On the eastern front, a Ukrainian unit sees little change on Independence Day. 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z The exception was medicine and pharmaceutical products, which increased by 62 percent from the prewar average. Trade between Russia and Britain falls to its lowest level on record. 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z While most veterans received assistance to help in their adjustment to postwar life, others returned home to an uncertain future without the promise of government aid to help them resume their prewar lives. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z There are few residents of Enerhodar, a town with a prewar population of about 50,000, who don’t have some kind of connection to the plant. Warnings of attack on Ukraine nuclear plant set the world on edge 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z I’ve also spoken to people from other areas who found the region appealing, whether for its stock of lovely old prewar houses or as a haven from global warming. Opinion | The ‘Zoom revolution’ enriched Jackson Hole. But what about Buffalo? 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z Grain prices peaked after Russia’s invasion, and while some have since returned to prewar levels, they remain significantly higher than before the COVID-19 pandemic. Zelenskyy to host Lviv talks with UN chief, Turkish leader 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z Last month Russia slashed gas deliveries to Germany and other European countries via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to 20 percent of the prewar capacity, and has threatened to further restrict flows. A German gas provider reports a €12 billion loss as Russia slashes fuel deliveries. 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z Loyalty to Great Britain came in many forms, from wealthy elites who enjoyed the prewar status quo to escaped enslaved people who desired the freedom that the British offered. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The streets in the city, which had a prewar population of about 300,000, are mostly deserted. Ukrainians flee grim life in Russian-occupied Kherson 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z “I make no apologies for the fact that one of our objectives here is to avoid direct conflict with Russia,” Sullivan said of the prewar period. Road to war: U.S. struggled to convince allies, and Zelensky, of risk of invasion In 1946, whalers, statesmen and scientists created the International Whaling Commission in hopes of heading off a return to disastrous prewar levels of whaling. The USSR once hunted endangered whales — while its scientists secretly tracked its toll 2022-08-13T04:00:00Z But the scruffy northern town has a long tradition of resistance going back to the days of the prewar British mandate before the creation of Israel. Away from Gaza, Islamic Jihad digs in against Israel on West Bank 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z New York City saw its average number of juvenile cases balloon from 9,500 in the prewar years to 11,200 during the war. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z But now, as the war grinds on and billions of dollars in international aid pours in, cracks and prewar tensions are beginning to emerge between the central government and local leaders. As war grinds on, old Ukrainian political divisions are reemerging 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z That means at least 30 percent of the country’s estimated prewar population of 41 million has been forced from their homes. In Ukraine, Devastation Spreads as Russia Regroups for New Offensive 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z Wheat prices have already fallen to prewar levels, but fertilizer prices remain high, said Máximo Torero, chief economist at the Food and Agriculture Organization, in an interview. Ukraine Ships Grain at Last. It Will Take Far More to Slow Global Hunger. 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z “The medical faculty’s position was, ‘This is not our history,’” said Christian Bonah, a medical historian at the university, whose prewar faculty and students had evacuated before Germany invaded. A French University Confronts Medical Crimes and Its Nazi Past 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z For organized labor, women, and African Americans in particular, the war brought changes to the prewar status quo. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Prices have since fallen back to prewar levels, but those levels were high, after climbing steadily in the year and a half before the invasion, and stockpiles are low because of the coronavirus pandemic. Russia Agrees to Let Ukraine Ship Grain, Easing World Food Shortage 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z Russia’s de facto blockade of the Black Sea caused Ukraine’s exports to drop to one-sixth of their prewar level. Turkey says a deal between Ukraine and Russia to unblock grain exports will be signed on Friday. 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z He resisted prewar American urging to form a unity government, but until now, he has avoided any major internal blowups or witch-hunts. Opinion | There are too many wild cards to forecast the Ukraine war 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z Half of Kharkiv’s prewar population of 1.8 million has left and 90 percent of businesses are closed, according to city officials. Kharkiv Tried to Return to Normal. Russian Shelling Wouldn’t Let It. 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z But on Monday, one of the most important prewar Russian outlets, TV Rain, resumed broadcasting on YouTube from Riga, Latvia. Zelensky Takes Aim at Hidden Enemy: Ukrainians Aiding Russia 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z A volley of Russian strikes yesterday morning on Vinnytsia, a city that had a prewar population of about 370,000 people in central Ukraine, killed at least 23 people, including three children. Your Friday Briefing 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z A Russian deputy prime minister who oversees Kremlin arms industries lamented in a TV interview last month that prewar drone development was not more robust. In Ukraine war, a race to acquire smarter, deadlier drones 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z A throwback to the political murders of prewar Japan. ‘Terrorism:’ Abe killing seen as attack on Japan’s democracy 2022-07-10T04:00:00Z Most of the internally displaced people are now coming from the country’s east, especially the Donbas region, where the Russian offensive has already emptied the land of about half its prewar population. Ukraine’s Herculean Task: Helping Millions Whose Homes Are in Ruins or Russia’s Hands 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z In Bakhmut, a town of leafy streets and brick apartment buildings with a prewar population of about 100,000 people, the streets are empty. As Russia Moves on Another Province, Ukrainians Leave Ghost Towns Behind 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z “The president said to ask you who the relief pitcher was for the American League prewar,” Haldeman said to Ziegler on a telephone call. As Watergate simmered, Nixon buckled down on a sportswriting project 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Russia’s de facto naval blockade has prevented Ukraine from exporting most of its prewar average monthly supply of five million tons of grain. Ukraine drives Russian forces from Snake Island, a setback for Moscow. 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z But in June, a new Putin has emerged, very much resembling his prewar image: relaxed, patient and self-confident. Patient and Confident, Putin Shifts Out of Wartime Crisis Mode 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z But a separate analysis of China-only data through the end of May shows that China’s exports to Russia remained well below prewar levels, suggesting that Beijing is wary of helping Moscow, Chorzempa said. Exports to Russia from China plummet, study shows 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z The first hurdle the team faced was upgrading underground utilities dating to the prewar housing on the campus that was abruptly shut down following the 1971 Sylmar earthquake. How the brother of a 9/11 firefighter stepped in to help homeless veterans in L.A. 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z Face’s first name, for the record, is Roy, and Nixon wound up choosing him as his post-World War II National League relief pitcher, while Mace Brown got the nod as the prewar NL relief pitcher. As Watergate simmered, Nixon buckled down on a sportswriting project 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z After a three-month interruption in normal service, Kyiv’s Central Civil Registry Office is fully open again and working almost at a prewar pace. Carpe diem: In Ukraine, war turning love into marriages 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z About 90 percent of the city’s buildings have been destroyed, according to Ukraine, and only about 8,000 civilians remain out of a prewar population of 160,000. Ukraine Retreats From Embattled City, as Russia Grinds On 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z As a result, even the tightly controlled politics of prewar Russia now looks vibrant in retrospect. From Russian Elites, No Sign of Broad Challenge to Putin 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z Lysychansk, an industrial city with a prewar population of 100,000, is largely cut off from the outside world, with no cell service or electricity. On the edge of embattled twin cities, an uncovered mass grave for civilians grows. 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z The only exception was from 1943 to 1945, during the last two years of the apocalyptic German occupation, which saw millions of Polish civilians killed, including most of the country’s large prewar Jewish population. Lessons from Poland, the other developed country curtailing abortion rights 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z Russia’s central bank cut interest rates back to their prewar levels Friday, saying inflation and economic activity were developing better than expected despite sweeping Western sanctions imposed in response to the war in Ukraine. Russia’s central bank cuts interest rates to prewar level 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z About 65,000 people had already fled, he said, from a prewar population of about 100,000, and heavy fighting persisted every day. Evacuating the Vulnerable Amid the Terror of War 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z Several people familiar with prewar assessments spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence. American spy agencies review their misses on Ukraine, Russia 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z Thanks to capital controls and orders that Russian exporters sell half their hard currency earnings to the state, the ruble has strengthened to prewar highs. Putin thinks West will blink first in war of attrition, Russian elites say 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z A local official said Wednesday that Russian forces controlled about 70% of the city, where only about 12,000 residents remain out of a prewar population of 100,000 after weeks of intense shelling. Ukraine’s soldiers slowly fall back under relentless fire 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z Residents remaining in the city, which had a prewar population of around 100,000, risked exposure to shelling to get water from a half-dozen wells, and there was no electricity or cellphone service, Striuk said. Russian troops storm city amid eastern Ukraine bombardments 2022-05-29T04:00:00Z Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has indicated that he will talk with Mr. Putin — as soon as Russia withdraws to the prewar lines, under which it held Crimea and a swath of additional territory. Opinion | Now is not the time to seek a deal with Putin 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z In the Donetsk region, Moscow’s troops took over the industrial town of Svitlodarsk, which hosts a thermal power station and had a prewar population of about 11,000, and raised the Russian flag there. Workers in Mariupol, Ukraine unearth more horrors 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z Even amid the deteriorating military situation in the east, signs of prewar life were returning to other parts of Ukraine. Russian troops move to encircle strategic city in eastern Ukraine 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z Only a fraction of the prewar population has come back. With Russians gone, Kyiv's suburbs struggle to return to being 'a happy place' 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z The city - its prewar population of about 430,000 now reduced by about three-quarters - has largely been reduced to rubble by relentless bombardment, and Ukraine says over 20,000 civilians have been killed there. Red Cross registers Mariupol POWs as hundreds more surrender 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z Yet Moscow paid an extraordinary price during the nearly three months it had to fight — contrary to all prewar expectations — for Mariupol. Opinion | The world must not forget Mariupol’s defenders 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z The city — its prewar population of about 430,000 now reduced by about three-quarters — has largely been reduced to rubble by relentless bombardment, and Ukraine says over 20,000 civilians have been killed there. Battle for Mariupol draws toward close after surrender 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z The city - its prewar population of about 430,000 now reduced by about three-quarters was largely flattened in steady bombardments, and Ukraine says over 20,000 civilians have been killed there. Interrogation, uncertainty for surrendering Mariupol troops 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z He said about 10,000 residents had returned so far — roughly a quarter of the prewar population of this small city 20 miles from Kyiv, the capital. In Bucha, a Symbol of Death and Atrocity, Life Returns 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z The Russian bombardment killed over 20,000 civilians, according to Ukraine, and left the remaining inhabitants — perhaps one-quarter of the southern port city’s prewar population of 430,000 — with little food, water, heat or medicine. Ukraine hopes to swap steel mill fighters for Russian POWs 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z Poland is hosting more than 10,000 American troops, up from a prewar presence of 4,500, and would like to see even more stationed there going forward. Splits open at NATO about how to boost presence in Eastern Europe 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z Most of the city’s prewar population of more than 400,000 has fled, and much of the city lies in ruins. Russia warns Finland and Sweden over NATO as strikes pummel east Ukraine 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z The largely Russian-speaking city with a prewar population of 1.4 million was a key military objective earlier in the war, when Moscow hoped to capture and hold major cities. Ukraine’s Zelenskyy defiant as Russia retreats from Kharkiv 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z There was an air of the innocence of prewar Europe about the journey. Returning to Istanbul, a Place of Competing Identities 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z The largely Russian-speaking city with a prewar population of 1.4 million was a key Russian military objective earlier in the war, when Moscow hoped to capture and hold major cities. Ukraine: Russians withdraw from around Kharkiv, batter east 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z The Ukrainian military chief for the Luhansk region of the Donbas said Friday that troops have taken nearly full control of Rubizhne, a city with a prewar population of around 55,000. Ukraine opens first war crimes trial of captured Russian 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z He got the idea from a novel by a man no one ever reads these days called Basil Thomson, who was a pretty dreadful prewar novelist. 'Operation Mincemeat' explained: The stolen body and fake intelligence that helped win WWII 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z The Kherson region had a prewar population of more than 1 million people, although Ukrainian officials say more than half of them have fled. How much of Ukraine does Russia hold? 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z Miles to the west of the Russian lines, tens of thousands of Ukrainian troops — up to half of its 126,000 prewar army — face them. As war grinds on, the definition of victory remains murky 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z Kharkiv, which was the first Soviet capital in Ukraine and had a prewar population of about 4 million, remained a key target of Russian shelling in the northeast. Last women and children evacuated from Ukrainian steel mill 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z Ahead of Victory Day, municipal workers and volunteers cleaned up what remains of the city, which had a prewar population of more than 400,000. Evacuation efforts go on at sprawling Ukrainian steel mill 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z Many have done so: The streets of Kramatorsk, an industrial and administrative center with a prewar population of about 150,000, are largely empty. Putin’s Forces Battle in East Ukraine to Feed His Hunger for a Victory 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z The prewar population of the metropolitan area of Kyiv was about four million; it dropped by half over a few hectic days in February. In Kyiv, residents cautiously return and embrace a renewed sense of normalcy. 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z The hacks, paired with prewar data theft, likely armed Russia with extensive details on much of Ukraine’s population, cybersecurity and military intelligence analysts say. A chilling Russian cyber aim in Ukraine: Digital dossiers 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z Today, only about 30 percent of the city’s prewar population of 20,000 remains, he said. Standing in the path of war, a small Ukrainian town braces as Russians advance. 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z He added that, “this is not to undermine his efforts” and credited Mr. Zelensky for adapting his populist, prewar politics into an effective leadership style in the crucible of conflict. How Zelensky Tamed Ukraine’s Fractious Politics and Stood Up to Putin 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z He said about a third of the city’s prewar population of 2 million had fled since March. Putin orders troops not to storm last Mariupol stronghold but declares success 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Only about 6,000 of the city’s 30,000 prewar residents remain, officials said, and the periodic boom of artillery and rocket fire throughout the day kept most people underground. A Ukrainian town goes underground as Russia assaults the east 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z It was no surprise to Ukrainian officials that a prewar priority for Russia would be compiling information on the citizenry. A chilling Russian cyber aim in Ukraine: Digital dossiers 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z Mariupol, a once-thriving port city of nearly half a million people, now lies in ruins, with three-quarters of its prewar population either displaced or dead, but is still considered a strategic prize. New surrender ultimatum in Mariupol as attacks intensify in east Ukraine 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z “They are hoping to destroy effectively the largest part of the Ukrainian prewar regular army, the best Ukrainian forces,” Crump told The Associated Press. EXPLAINER: How Russia’s eastern push in Ukraine may unfold 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z An estimated 100,000 civilians, less than a quarter of the prewar population, remain in Mariupol cut off from food, water, heat and humanitarian aid, with some exceptions. Mariupol in final siege; Ukrainian forces ‘will fight till the end’ 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z Such tentative signs of prewar life have resurfaced in the capital after Russian troops failed to capture the city and retreated to concentrate on eastern Ukraine, leaving behind evidence of possible war crimes. Over 900 civilians dead around Kyiv, Russia vows new attacks 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Wheat prices have settled about 30 percent above prewar levels. Tunisia among countries seeing major economic consequences from war in Ukraine 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z Around the edges, longtime residents are trying to preserve some semblance of prewar life. No More ‘Have a Nice Day’: Lviv Learns to Live With War 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z City officials estimate that close to half of Kyiv’s prewar population of around three million remained in the city. ‘The City Lives’: With Russian Forces Gone, Kyiv Starts to Revive 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z Kharkiv, which had a prewar population of around 1.4 million, has been shelled incessantly since Russia invaded. Traces of Lives Cut Short: Bread on a Park Bench, Blood Pooled Nearby 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z Yet his failure to seize Kyiv will be long remembered — for how it defied prewar expectations and exposed surprising weaknesses in a military thought to be one of the strongest in the world. Russia’s failure to take down Kyiv was a defeat for the ages 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z A phalanx of federal banks replaced the prewar hodgepodge of state banks, creating institutions that would not only finance the conflict but also fund the postwar economy. Review | The Civil War’s financial battles 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z In a category by itself is China, which has pursued neutrality while refusing to modify its prewar declaration of friendship with Moscow. Opinion | Too many nations still waffle on Ukraine. The U.S. cannot ignore them. 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z About 100,000 people are believed to remain in the Sea of Azov city, less than a quarter its prewar population of 430,000, and dire shortages of water, food, fuel and medicine persist. Ukraine sees openings as Russia fixed on besieged Mariupol 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z However, it has roared back to prewar levels as of Thursday afternoon because of the surge in oil and gas prices. White House defends sanctions amid ruble rebound 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z The port city, which had a prewar population of more than 400,000, has been a strategic focus of Russia's invasion of Ukraine that began five weeks ago, and has suffered near-constant bombardment. Eking out an existence and mourning the dead in besieged Mariupol 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z Although he has fallen to about 28.5 percent of the vote in the most recent polls, down from 30 percent, Mr. Macron is still four percentage points up on his prewar average. President Macron’s Unending Russia Diplomacy 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z Both sides promised to honor their prewar debts to the other, and the United States made an empty promise to request the state legislatures to return the confiscated property of Loyalists. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z With much of the central bank’s reserves frozen, Mr. Putin needs the hard currency he receives every day, and therefore Russia has continued to pump oil at full prewar capacity. Opinion | Thanks to Europe, Putin’s War Is Paying for Itself 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z But the currency has partly rebounded to a level about 20 percent below its prewar level, according to the official central bank rate, restoring part of Russians’ purchasing power. Biden aides explore rarely used sanctions weapon against Russia 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z He said about 130,000 people are left in the besieged city, about half its prewar population. Moscow accused of forcibly removing civilians to Russia 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z The ruble initially lost about half its value against the U.S. dollar but has since partly rebounded to a rate about 30 percent below its prewar level, according to Russia’s central bank. Russia’s oil and gas exports are helping to blunt the pain of sanctions 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z Since many prewar southerners had raised their own food, tillage suffered when farmers entered the army, and poor facilities hindered transportation and distribution of the harvest. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z On Wednesday, fewer than 1,000 residents were still living in the town — out of a prewar population of about 15,000. In Ukrainian town, reality doesn’t match government boasts of victory over Russian forces 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z The figure, outlined Sunday by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi, amounts to about a quarter of the prewar population, which the World Bank estimated at 44 million in 2020. Nearly 1 in 4 people in Ukraine forced out of their homes since Russia’s invasion 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z The figure amounts to a quarter of Ukraine’s prewar population. Pitched battle in Mariupol intensifies, as war displaces millions across Ukraine 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z Instead, the leading statesmen of the time believed that if the prewar conditions were restored the self-regulating market would solve all the problems. We’re living in the geopolitical shadow of the 1900s 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z Pontiac himself was only one of the campaign’s many leaders, but in a series of 1765 peace conferences, he persuaded most of his allies to accept a return to the prewar status quo. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Annual spending in the Union reached a staggering 16 times its prewar budget. How to Fight Inflation in Wartime 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z What we need is more of a ‘prewar’ mentality.” Lithuania, a Vulnerable NATO Link, Readies for Putin 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z The Kazimierz neighborhood was long the heart of Krakow’s Jewish community, which represented about one-quarter of the city’s prewar population before the Nazi mass murder campaign. Nerves on edge in Poland as war next door in Ukraine revives fears of Russia 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z For South Africa and Turkey, that would slash prewar growth estimates in half, while China and Indonesia would see projected growth drop to about 4 percent. Oil price shock jolts global recovery as economic impact of Russia’s invasion spreads 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z The British were in no mood to negotiate, moreover, so long as the states refused to restore the property of Loyalists or require the repayment of prewar debts. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z After World War I, the United States returned to its prewar policy of isolationism. myWorld: The Growth of Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z At least 1 million have fled the country, according to the United Nations, which sees a likely total of 4 million — nearly one-tenth of Ukraine’s prewar population. Opinion | The atrocities inflicted on Ukrainian civilians must not go unanswered 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Although many of the new directions in painting and music began in the prewar period, they evolved after the war. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Sales have not yet reached prewar levels, but they’re climbing steadily, she said. ‘We Need to Oppose Russia’: Ukrainians Find Common Purpose 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z Because the years 1815 to 1860 immediately preceded the Civil War, historians also call these years the antebellum, or prewar, period. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z It could no longer return to its prewar isolationism. myWorld: The Growth of Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Some 95,000 Jewish people lived in Latvia before the World War II. The thriving prewar community suffered enormous losses during the Nazi occupation. Latvia passes long-awaited Holocaust restitution law 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z In prewar Britain, autos were owned exclusively by the rich. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Davis said he had spent weeks defending the prime minister from “angry constituents,” and then brought up in Parliament the example of Britain’s prewar prime minister infamous for appeasing Adolf Hitler. Britain’s scandal-hit Boris Johnson lifts coronavirus restrictions, battles to save premiership 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z The country still bears the imprint of 20th century traumas, including the prewar slide from democracy into Nazism and the East-West division that ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. As Capitol riot anniversary nears, Western allies fear for health of U.S. democracy 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z Back in “prewar” times, Omar and Eve’s parents ran a Kabul nightclub, and in pictures from that time, Afghan women looked like any other stylish women in Asia. As their homeland fell to the Taliban, these Afghan women rose to lead a D.C. restaurant empire 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Decades after the Holocaust, many European countries have taken steps to compensate the families of prewar Jewish property owners, though the picture is very mixed. Latvia passes long-awaited Holocaust restitution law 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z Once the Germans had lost, some prewar governments—like those in Belgium, Holland, Denmark, and Norway—returned quickly. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Once, in Warsaw, I saw the facade of an abandoned prewar building fall, cleanly, like drapery slipping from a statue. How Alienation Became My Superpower 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z For every minute of this taut but slow-roiling family drama, we are in a dilapidated prewar apartment in Manhattan’s Chinatown, and I mean really in it. Review: Spend a hell of a Thanksgiving with Amy Schumer and Steven Yeun in 'The Humans' 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z The law also affects some Holocaust survivors and their descendants, triggering a diplomatic row with Israel, though the majority of the prewar property seized by the communists was owned by Christian Poles, not Jews. Scion of Polish nobility jailed in property restitution case 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z Poland, which was home to the largest Jewish population of Europe, has not adopted any legislation that would regulate the return of property or provide compensation to prewar owners. Latvia passes long-awaited Holocaust restitution law 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z The response was often: Did he mean the old prewar cemetery, or the unmarked wartime grave? Sites where Germans killed Jews are dedicated in Poland 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z My daughter spent her first two years in a prewar apartment building with dusty sconces and cracked marble steps in the lobby. The Myth of Asian American Identity 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z Now in its 11th year, the conflict has displaced half the prewar population and left hundreds of thousands dead, with no clear plan for the enormous reconstruction required. In Week of Words, It Often Seemed Like the Divided Nations 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z The exhibit covers the turbulent postwar era of Reconstruction as the vanquished Southern states sought to recreate prewar racial oppression, and African Americans fought, ultimately in vain, to prevent it. In 1865, thousands of Black South Carolinians signed a 54-foot-long freedom petition 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z He wasn’t even a resident of Virginia for most of his prewar life; Alexandria, his hometown, was part of the District of Columbia until 1847. Opinion | Robert E. Lee was a stone-cold loser 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z After the graveside ceremony, the mourners moved to Wojslawice’s renovated synagogue, where the mayor paid tribute to the multiethnic nature of the prewar town, where Poles, Ukrainians and Jews lived side by side. Sites where Germans killed Jews are dedicated in Poland 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z “At the same time, what constitutes an enthusiast vehicle has changed, too. Thirty years ago, serious collectors only bought prewar cars. Twenty years ago, they bought 1950s and ’60s Ferraris. More Women Muscle In on the World of Vintage Cars 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z Faded, white clapboard Civil War-era homes and once-stately prewar brick businesses that descend Main Street and its side streets to the Mississippi River stand as monuments to more prosperous days. ‘Past the point of no return’? Iowa Dems feel hopes fading 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z There is no hope of ever reclaiming it, he said – but what rankles more for him is newcomers who cite prewar claims of their own in Palestinian neighborhoods. The fire next time: After latest Gaza war, Jerusalem remains a spark for conflict 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z The Sackler saga began with three sons born to an immigrant family in prewar Brooklyn; their father struggled financially, but vowed to leave his sons his good name. Looking for some great summer reading? Here are 8 page-turners to start 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z Syria is a country in ruins, with a collapsed economy and half of its prewar population displaced. They ‘Bombed My Dream’: Denmark Strips Some Syrians of Residency Status 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z She and her dapper husband were fixtures on the prewar Washington party circuit. Perspective | Was Bebe Thomsen a ditsy animal lover or a Nazi spy? Even her friends wondered. 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z It persevered through the late 1940s, like many global automakers, with slightly updated versions of prewar designs, in its case the 170, a rather unremarkable coupe with a small four-cylinder engine. A Postwar Mercedes, Still Overshadowed by Its Racing Cousins 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z His prewar America was a country where most people lived in small towns or on farms. So we finally made it through 2020. Um … now what? 2021-01-03T05:00:00Z Under that version of history, the prewar South was a land of magnolias and chivalry where women were belles, men were noble cavaliers and Black people were happy to be enslaved. Richmond sculptor Edward Valentine created many of the statues that defined Lost Cause mythology. Now his family’s museum is confronting the legacy. 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z A locality receives funds based on whichever formula awards it the most money, and just under half of the homeless grant recipients fall under the second, which considers prewar housing. Calculating homeless aid has relied on a flawed formula 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z Another 6 million of Syria’s prewar population of 23 million are internally displaced. Lives Lost: Doctor chose to stay, work in war-torn Syria 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z Old prewar apartment buildings stood vacant then, doors and windows broken like blackened eyes. At New York’s Nadir, Dinkins Gave the City the ‘Freedom to Imagine’ 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z Trumps live in Trump towers, not prewar buildings with discriminating gatekeepers who might find them vulgar. Will Manhattan’s Elite Really Spurn Ivanka and Jared (and Their Money)? 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z Following reunification in 1990, Modernist residential buildings fell out of fashion in a rush to remodel and preserve prewar buildings in the city’s former East. In Berlin, Mysterious Dwellings Hidden Amid the Trees 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z More than half the country’s prewar population remains internally displaced, or in camps across the borders of neighbouring countries. How Syria's disinformation wars destroyed the co-founder of the White Helmets 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z Mao’s role in prewar deliberations is often omitted. China, and Xi, commemorate the Korean War as victory over United States 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z By 1944, investment in the Manhattan Project equaled investment in the prewar automobile industry. Opinion | How covid-19 could make a case against big government 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z Can I ever live up to playing the character who lives here?’” he told The Times of the intricate prewar New York apartment erected at Sunset Gower Studios. Why Netflix's 'The Boys in the Band' gave the landmark play a quietly hopeful ending 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z Those who couldn’t find other housing took rooms in $1-a-night hostels carved out of prewar hotels and Buddhist temples, or trailers and repurposed Army barracks. For Japanese-Americans, Housing Injustices Outlived Internment 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z Many were children from Hawaii and the West Coast who had arrived in the prewar years to visit relatives or absorb the culture of their families’ heritage. He was an American child in Hiroshima on the day the atomic bomb dropped 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z The Iraqi informant’s German handlers say they had told U.S. officials that his information was ‘not proven,’ and were shocked when President Bush and Colin L. Powell used it in key prewar speeches. Review: The lies and mistakes that led us into Iraq, laid out in a new book 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z Moreover, a circular reasoning guided the intelligence community’s prewar estimates. Colin Powell Still Wants Answers 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z Johnson, in fact, is most likely the last living member of any prewar polar expedition by any country, said Glenn Stein, a polar and maritime historian from Apopka. 100-year-old Florida man remembers expedition to Antarctica 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z Amid a bitter strain in relations with Poland, Putin this year zeroed in on Warsaw, denouncing its prewar leaders of colluding with Nazi Germany to annex part of Czechoslovakia in 1938. Putin uses World War II parade to boost support before vote 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z In the summer of 1941, after the German invasion, an estimated 13,000 Lithuanian fascists actively assisted the Germans in killing approximately 95 percent of the prewar Jewish population. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Don’t fan Fauci fever 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z By 1920, isolationism regained its prewar popularity, and the flu was regarded as just another malignant foreign force, both in the United States and elsewhere. Why Are There Almost No Memorials to the Flu of 1918? 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z This was, I learned, typical of the prewar intelligence estimates: They amounted to semi-educated guesses built on previous and seldom-challenged guesses that always assumed the worst and imagined deceptiveness in everything the Iraqi regime did. Colin Powell Still Wants Answers 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z An Austrian medical student is mistaken for a Nazi spy at a hotel on the prewar Riviera. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, May 10, 2020 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z But it means there are groves of tall trees, and habitat for thousands of birds, even in a dense neighborhood of six-story, yellow-brick prewar apartment buildings. Sirens in the silence: As we settle in for a plague year, the empire strikes back 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z Referring to the culture and politics of prewar Europe – Mann began the novel before the great war but finished it afterwards – the democratic socialist Michael Harrington once observed that Mann’s patients were “sickened by history”. Coronavirus is a political problem, not just a health problem. Remember that when you vote | Kelly Candaele 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z He attended top technical schools in prewar Germany. Who got America to the moon? An unlikely collaboration of Jewish and former Nazi scientists and engineers 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z Some even claimed that the prewar Dred Scott decision, which limited citizenship to whites, remained the law of the land. Opinion | There Have Been 10 Black Senators Since Emancipation 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z And part of that path is the one of a society afflicted by rampant economic inequity — all conveyed by the crumbling prewar apartment building that Fleck inhabits, with its flaking paint and dire hallways. How the Oscars' best-picture nominees used architecture to tell stories of inequity 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z But the seeming fragmentation of the international world order in recent years, and a parallel reversion to the nationalistic rhetoric of prewar decades, inevitably threaten this increased scientific cooperation. Scientists Must Stand Up for Internationalism 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Jesse Owens, a black American winning gold in prewar Nazi Germany, comes to mind. Editorial Roundup: US 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z He later accused the Bush administration of twisting prewar intelligence on Iraq to justify going to war. Candidate questions rationale for killing Iranian general 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z Those faulty prewar claims have had a lasting impact on American credibility in the Middle East and beyond. Analysis | Trump faces Iran crisis with fewer experienced advisers and strained relations with traditional allies 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z “Poverty, life expectancy and child malnutrition” were “not much different than they were in the prewar period” before Siad Barre’s ouster, according to a 2012 report by the Central Bank of Somalia. Column: The truth about Somalia shows the absurdity of Trump's attack on Yovanovitch 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z The show is using concerts, conversations, films, artifacts, and even food to evoke Ms. Levi’s life and Jewish culture generally in prewar Rhodes. She Grew Up on a Remote Italian Island. Then Came the Holocaust. 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z Poland’s Solidarity movement was splintering into liberal and nationalist factions that resembled prewar parties. Opinion | The politics of the 1930s are still playing out in Eastern Europe 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z And unlike European automakers, which re-established their prewar reputations relatively quickly, “made in Japan” largely existed as a pejorative, synonymous with cheap manufacturing methods and flimsy construction. ‘Japanese Cars Are Getting to Be Full-Fledged Collectibles’ 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Halle’s prewar Jewish population was around thirteen hundred; by 1944, around ninety remained. A Terrorist Attack on Yom Kippur in Halle, Germany 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z In July of 2003, Wilson accused the Bush administration of twisting prewar intelligence on Iraq, kicking up a scandal that led to Plame’s covert CIA identity being leaked to reporters. Former US Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who challenged case for Iraq War, dead at 69 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z This tactic of tyrannies is not new: Read Alan Furst’s novel “Mission to Paris,” concerning Germany’s prewar infiltration of French media. Opinion | Time is on Taiwan’s side, as long as the U.S. is, too 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z Such titans of the prewar Parisian scene were still alive in 1971 – but Masson connects us with a much earlier outrage. Death on a toilet: the shocking Paris show that almost sank Francis Bacon 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Out were the ‘trim fit and exaggerated shoulders’ of the prewar period. Warren bests Bernie for key left-wing endorsement 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z The prewar population of Terezín, a garrison town dominated by barracks and surrounded by ramparts, was about seven thousand, both soldiers and civilians. My Terezín Diary 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z Their prewar governments, they believed, had surrendered to fascism because they were corrupt, grossly unequal, lacking moral legitimacy. Into the storm: the horror of the second world war 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z Its leader, Erich Honecker, far from being an east German, came from the most westerly part of prewar Germany, the Saarland, heavily industrial and dominated by the Communist party to which he belonged. From a picnic to the Berlin Wall: my 1989 summer of revolution 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z Many of the most politically effective prewar novelists were socialists, whose moral prestige was destablised by Stalinism. Is the political novel dead? 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z At dinnertime our first night in Aleppo, our driver, Abu Abdo, said he knew a few places to eat near our hotel from his prewar days taking tourists to the city. What ‘Victory’ Looks Like: A Journey Through Shattered Syria 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z “Every layer of paint is still present on the car down to the original prewar paint.” ‘First’ Porsche Heads to Auction, and a Record Price Is Expected 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z As he began to pick up the threads of his prewar life in Paris, it was this vision of existence – boredom, and waiting seasoned with a gallows humour – that he expressed in radical dramatic form. Another side of Samuel Beckett 2019-07-28T04:00:00Z But there also were income differences among whites in the prewar South. What Southern dynasties’ post-Civil War resurgence tell us about how wealth is really handed down 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Nearly half the prewar health facilities are no longer working, often because they were damaged by airstrikes. Cholera is surging once again in war-ravaged Yemen 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Nearly half the prewar health facilities are no longer working, often because they were damaged by airstrikes. Cholera is surging once again in war-ravaged Yemen 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Toronto, like San Francisco, kept a substantial portion of its prewar streetcar network. Mapped: historic public transit systems v their modern equivalents 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z Not everyone shared the generally enthusiastic reception the new era name received on Monday, with some describing it as a throwback to prewar monarchism. Reiwa: how Japan's new era name is breaking tradition 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Peterson and his husband now live on a high floor of a prewar building at 72nd Street and Riverside Drive, a prime Manhattan location. 50 Years of Affirmative Action: What Went Right, and What It Got Wrong 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z But a prewar marketing slogan still captures the essential spirit of wine’s place in French culture: “Wine is the sacred foodstuff that alights the fire of the French soul.” French Raise a Glass to a Health Warning About Too Much Wine 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z After, she was at Pasadena’s Norton Simon Museum, home to stellar European and South and Southeast Asian art but almost no prewar American painting, sculpture or design. Troublesome signs in LACMA’s risky reorganization plan 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z On one particularly exhausting day, I started out at a public housing complex on Rutgers Street before stopping at a tenement on the Bowery and then a beautiful prewar apartment in SoHo. ‘She Pulled a Book Out of Her Bag to Show Him What She Was Reading’ 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z “Thanks for agreeing to the interview, Mrs. Marchenstamp,” Jean said, dazed in the claustrophobic entryway, jammed with prewar junk and mysterious edges. A young journalist, an old lady, and a vintage e-pet reunion 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z They’re a far cry from the prim studio portraiture that dominated prewar Japanese photography. 'Ravens and Red Lipstick' unearths an unexpected portrait over 70 years of Japanese photography 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z The street, a mix of rowhouses and prewar apartment buildings, is often full of people, as it was that night, including children, Mr. Bell said. An Officer Fired 27 Times at a Fleeing Suspect. Did He Need To? 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z Panorama Park is just one of about two hundred mass graves thought to exist in Raqqa, a city with a prewar population of perhaps half a million. A Year After the End of ISIS Control in Raqqa, a Ruined City Looks to Rebuild 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z More than half of these - about 10 percent of Korea’s prewar population - were civilians. West Virginia nurse, now 80, was part of MASH unit 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z While her friends rhapsodized about prewar quilts and other treasures, Lowe’s interests were elsewhere. Jewelry designer Sheryl Lowe wants her pieces to create a sense of adventure for the wearer 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z It is doubtful many Americans would trade today’s economy for its prewar predecessor. Opinion | Was the Great Recession worse than the Great Depression? 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z With the help of a former classmate, Zilberstein matched the drug traces to samples of prewar Moscow morphine from the archive of the city’s police department. Do Proteins Hold the Key to the Past? 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z He suggested to a local railway executive that a rugby stadium might bring more people to the area given the sport’s growing profile in prewar Japan. Japan's spiritual home of rugby can't wait to host World Cup 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z This upheaval in society was not capable of being transformed back to a prewar reality when peace arrived. Armistice Day: November 11, 1918 to November 11, 2018 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z But the war dead numbered less than the prewar rate of emigration – mostly of young men. Armistice Day: victory and beyond | Neal Ascherson 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z The writing in his prewar novels is crisp, ironic, and bright almost to the point of brittleness. How Anthony Powell Wrote His Twelve-Volume Masterpiece 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Though it seems determined to ignore the adjacent kitchen, the dining area in this Manhattan prewar apartment, decorated by New York interior designer Robin Henry, hangs together on its own terms. How to Hide A Kitchen 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z The public overwhelmingly welcomed the democratic constitution, but many conservatives trying to restore Japan's prewar values see the charter as a U.S. imposition and symbol of Japan's humiliation. Abe's third term: A chance for constitutional change? 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z The public overwhelmingly welcomed a democratic constitution, but many conservatives trying to restore Japan’s prewar values see the charter as a U.S. imposition and symbol of Japan’s humiliation. Abe’s third term: A chance for constitutional change? 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z His religious activities and prewar affiliations with nationalist groups were viewed with suspicion, the file notes, but his daughter’s record was exemplary. Was the Philosopher Julia Kristeva a Cold War Collaborator? 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Leon’s England is, as in Hartley’s novel, prewar upper-class England, when the rules were so much more evident, and the existential effect of their loosening so much greater. Boiling point: why literature loves a long, hot summer 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z She and her husband liked their house, a prewar colonial. Surrendering to Rising Seas 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z On its base, they scrawled the symbol of the National Radical Camp, a Polish prewar fascist movement that was resurrected after the fall of communism. Poles apart: the bitter conflict over a nation’s communist history 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z The rooftop farm will not be far from Park Avenue, with its prewar buildings, all brick and old-fashioned masonry. From a Convention Center’s Roof, ‘Walk-Off Vegetables’ 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z But the book’s enduring value is its deep dives into Marlowe’s complex moral code and prewar Los Angeles’ multilayered society, from the privileged wealthy to the sleazy and criminal. Back on the mean streets with 2 Philip Marlowe books 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z In addition, in 1917 a new “excess profits tax” — on profits above the payer’s prewar level — was imposed, and it ranged as high as 80 percent. Once Cut, Corporate Income Taxes Are Hard to Restore 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z |
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