Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Never in history has such a responsibility been placed upon a civilization as now faces America-for inevitably the world will have either a Pax Americana or no peace...
...land in which I am living. There is no censorship of the press. . . . The papers . . . which I see every day are as critical of the government as they like and are allowed a liberty in time of civil war which I do not think for a moment we in America would tolerate under like circumstances...
...time of the Dewey announcement, MacArthur supporters had whipped themselves up to a lather of confidence. Gathering in Milwaukee's Plankinton House, 200 MacArthurmen from 19 states met to listen to jubilant speeches by Wisconsin's Secretary of State Fred Zimmerman and ex-America Firster Lansing Hoyt, national chairman of the MacArthur-for-President clubs. The delegates talked hopefully of winning all of Wisconsin's 27 convention votes...
...Arctic Circle, he soon leaves the great timberlands behind and enters a region where the last, sparse outposts of birch, spruce and cottonwood gradually fade into the boundless levels of the tundra. Here is the world which "knows but two seasons: winter and August"; here great rivers of North America and Asia drain away and congeal into the titanic ice-blocks of the Arctic Ocean; here (and not at the North Pole) the thermometer has touched its recorded lowest (93° below zero) and the milk of Siberia is sold at so much per piece...
...voyages of Columbus had a very different effect. Men discovered, to their great annoyance, that Columbus' "spice island" was a vast continent which shut them off from the rich Indies; and they tried again & again to by-pass America and Russia by finding some northwest or northeast passage. Warned that he would perish in the Arctic, Elizabethan Robert Thorne replied brusquely: "There is no land unhabitable, nor sea innavigable." So sure were these hardy Elizabethans of reaching their goal that they sheathed their cockleshell ships with lead, to protect the timbers from the worms of India...