Word: againe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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. . . I'm very happy to vote again for Harry Truman . . .
Alger Hiss dressed and presented himself once again in Judge Clancy's courtroom. His debonair manner had vanished. His boyish face was a bleak, set mask. He was charged, he was told, with perjury. How did he plead? "I plead not guilty to both counts," he said.
In 1932, Holcombe bounced back into office. He was elected during a municipal crisis: the city treasury had run dry. The light company had turned off the street lights and municipal employees were not paid. Holcombe was elected on his pledge to tidy up the city books. Part of his...
To restore some contact with the outside world, Fu ordered construction of an airstrip on the polo ground of the old legation quarter, in the heart of the city. Gangs of padded-gowned forced labor leveled telephone poles, trees and buildings on the approaches to the strip. Enterprising citizens dashed...
Arnold Toynbee, whose Study of History (a one-volume condensation of his work-in-progress) was a surprise bestseller of 1947, again was listed with an even more unlikely candidate, Civilization on Trial. In 13 scholarly essays he reaffirmed the large, calm view of history, taking the position that man...