Word: americans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oriental Munich." This was the end of the tragic China road-but had not much of it been paved with shiny, good American intentions? Acheson argued vigorously that the U.S. could not have done more: "It is obvious that the American people would not have sanctioned ... a colossal commitment of our armies in 1945 or later . . . The ominous result . . . was beyond the control of the Government of the United States . . . Nothing that this country did or could have done within the reasonable limits of its capabilities could have changed that result; nothing that was left undone by this country...
...dream of building a middle-of-the-road "liberal" party from scattered political factions in a nation at fatal war with itself. From those factions that inspired such hope, only one leader later rose to power: General Li Tsung-jen, who last year proposed to the U.S.S.R. that American influence be eliminated...
...Mexican-American boys in zoot suits who are attacked by club-swinging sailors the night before they are to join the Army...
Most of the contributors are committed to the conventional realism that has by now become a rut for American storytelling. They concentrate humorlessly on a social or psychological problem, they marshal bony facts in straight platoons of narrative, and they employ the English language with literalness and flatness...
WELLS FARGO: ADVANCING THE AMERICAN FRONTIER (274 pp.)-Edward Hungerford-Random House...